"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