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Selected Poems
Selected Poems
Selected Poems
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Selected Poems

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A collection of selected poems written by the author from 1979 up to the year 1990. This book not only reflects the authors poetic style as a writer but at the same time his definition of what poetry is as an artistic expression.

The poems meanings touch on themes like death, marriage, and love.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateApr 13, 2016
ISBN9781514414163
Selected Poems
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Kearney Smith

Kearney Smith grew up on a farm in Rowan County North Carolina. He attended Landis High School in the early 1950s. Then he entered the Marine Corps and served until 1959. After working at several odd jobs, he entered Charlotte College in 1962 and graduated in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Some of the jobs Kearney held in the early 1960s were commercial artist at Charlotte Textile Engravers, auto driving instructor, and tour bus driver during two summers in Yellowstone National Park. While a student in Charlotte College, Kearney married Catherine Jenrette, a physical education teacher in the Charlotte elementary schools. The couple then moved to Chapel Hill where Kearney enrolled in the University and earned a Master of Arts degree in English. He then took a teaching post at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina where their first child, Elizabeth, was born. Kearney taught two years at Furman before enrolling in the graduate school of the University of Georgia at Athens. The couple's second child, Stephen, was born in Athens. While studying at the University for the doctorate, Kearney taught some courses as a graduate assistant. In 1973 Kearney earned a Ph.D. in English. Next the family moved to Cleveland, Tennessee, where Kearney taught for several years before the family relocated to the mountains of North Carolina. At Maryland, a new member campus of the North Carolina Community College system, Dr. Smith taught language and liberal arts courses until his retirement in 1997.

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    Selected Poems - Kearney Smith

    Copyright © 2016 by Kearney Smith.

    Library of Congress Control Number:   2015916366

    ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5144-1422-4

          Softcover      978-1-5144-1421-7

          eBook         978-1-5144-1416-3

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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    Rev. date: 04/12/2016

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    CONTENTS

    Epithalamium, 1990

    Graduation Song, 1988

    To an Astronomer

    Elegy for a Small Child

    Fast Sleeping

    Anniversary Poem I

    Anniversary Poem II

    Aesthetic Relativity

    Thinking of Christmas, 1996

    For His Daughter

    A Photograph Made in 1862

    A Dramatic Monologue: An Astronomer to his Lover

    Sweet Sally

    Thomas Hardy on the Common Cold

    Of Passion

    Mara Olivia Smith

    A Christmas Meditation

    Galileo from the Grave

    Christmas, 1984

    Villanelle, To His Father, 1979

    Mary’s Lullaby

    Notes on Lyric Poetry

    About the Poet

    Epithalamium, 1990

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    (A Wedding Song)

    When storm clouds threaten us. when sorrows pain,

    together we shall face them unafraid,

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