“With a kind of clipped historical shorthand, the use of the fragment in The Size of Paradise becomes a supercharged lyrical force that is also sprung with time. The momentum of this capacious book-length sequence keeps turning outward as it investigates an inward subjectivity, not all together Dale Smith per se, but maybe a collective interiority where we find, “Dead things collect in words.” And more importantly we discover “There will be love as memory.” Dale Smith has written a high-stakes recounting of time and experience expanding the world we live within and that lives within us. This book is out of doors. I love it.”

PETER GIZZI, author of Fierce Elegy

There is a wound the size of paradise.

The new full-length collection by the author of Blur Flying Red Horse & Sons

Spring 2024 from knife | fork | book. Distributed by Asterism Books.

DALE MARTIN SMITH BLUR OUT NOW from KFB