In the City of Wind

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The Summer 1975 issue was devoted to the topic "Talking American Poetry"; it was a rich conversation, drawing works from such varied writers as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael Davidson, Nikki Giovanni and Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky and Charles Wright. We've included several works from that issue in this anthology.

Dave Smith was one of the writers included in the issue. SMITH recently wrote to us to discuss both of the poems reprinted here. Of "In the City of Wind," Smith writes:

The poem was urged by my awareness of the migration of my fellow Southerners from their Appalachian backgrounds to the auto industries and jobs in the Northern Midwest, a typical American flight toward what seemed to be opportunity for …