Carmen Gimenez Smith

Carmen Gimenez Smith appears in the following:

A Tree Grows in LA: 'Urban' Meets Pastoral In 366 Short Poems

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

The pastoral is one of literature's oldest forms; it's safe to say our ideas about nature, however, have changed rapidly and radically in the modern age. Poet Harryette Mullen makes a beautiful marriage between those new ideas and a classic poetic form in her first collection in over a decade, ...

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In Memoir Of Child's Death, A Mother Seeks Meaning

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

When Emily Rapp first discovers that her 9-month-old son, Ronan, has Tay-Sachs, an incurable and fatal disease that gradually robs a child of his nervous system, she wets herself; the floor and walls of the doctor's office seem to melt and liquefy; and she thinks, "weirdly," about her son's namesake, ...

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