The Passenger
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Product Details
Author:
Dale Martin Smith
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Publisher:
Wave Books (October 20, 2026)
Imprint:
Wave Books
Release Date:
October 20, 2026
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9798891060494
Weight:
12oz
Dimensions:
6" x 8"
File:
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Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$22.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
48
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$16.94
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
A
Overview
In his latest collection, Toronto-based poet Dale Martin Smith invites us into a vivid lyric landscape, a looping personal voyage of reckoning and return.
In a series of spare evocative poems, framed by two lyric essays, Smith presents a search for meaning in terms of memory, the self, and national narrative. The Passenger inhabits multiple iterations of selfhood across time, spanning over 30 years and starting with site-specific images of the author’s experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Yemen in the early 1990s. The violence of US imperialism, the sacrifice of lives in the ongoing wars on terror, and the author’s own lived encounters between cultures trace an echo of mnemonic layering. Smith subtly guides the experience of embodied but unsettled subjectivity, questioning the dominance of Western idealism and what it means to contend with national identity through recollection.
In a series of spare evocative poems, framed by two lyric essays, Smith presents a search for meaning in terms of memory, the self, and national narrative. The Passenger inhabits multiple iterations of selfhood across time, spanning over 30 years and starting with site-specific images of the author’s experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Yemen in the early 1990s. The violence of US imperialism, the sacrifice of lives in the ongoing wars on terror, and the author’s own lived encounters between cultures trace an echo of mnemonic layering. Smith subtly guides the experience of embodied but unsettled subjectivity, questioning the dominance of Western idealism and what it means to contend with national identity through recollection.
