Hawks on Wires

Dave Smith's sixteenth poetry collection chronicles the arc of almost sixty years living in the American South. From dusty sawmills to the ubiquitous Waffle House, Hawks on Wires stages both mortal and comic dramas that speak to the poet's autumnal acceptance of himself and the South. Poems of growing up engaged with the people of the coast and woodlands -- boatmen, hunters, crabbers, sawyers, and tough-mouthed waitresses -- celebrate the once strong but now tenuous threads of community. Traveli