One Warm Morning - Abraham Smith

"Abraham Smith is one of my favorite living poets keeping 

the art form alive. He stokes the fires of imagination and 

his persistence keeps the cinders of inspiration smoldering. 

It is a joy to read his work and a thrill to hear him read it 

in person." 

- Margo Price

"The mists that hover over a meadow first thing in the 

morning do not disappear; rather they sublime into the day 

or, as Thoreau once put it, they "conform to the fashions of 

eternity." In One Warm Morning, Abraham Smith likewise 

hovers gently over his words as they sublime, effortlessly 

it seems, into an eternity of free access and inviolable 

intimacy. Along the way, the music they make is the most 

companionable that I know."

- Donald Revell

"Abraham Smith takes a long walk on a warm morning 

and we are lucky to be invited along as he shows us 

the mind is not a fact but a motion. And a music! of 

"hummingbirds / historical jazzes / corks in rapids," and 

a holy lot more. Smith caroms from one association to the 

next -a deerfly bite, a bad tattoo, "a cold bleacher / at the 

last homegame of the year" - as if there were no bounds 

to consciousness, as if "we must have what's next" 

and "go on go on go on go on," as if the joy's all in the 

movement. It is! You'll wish it wouldn't end."

- Joel Brouwer