Smith, Larry Milldust and Roses: Memoirs ISBN 13: 9781564391148

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Cultural Writing. This new book by the publisher of Bottom Dog Press is a memoir of a midwest town and family, a time and place, and a life. "It is Smith's simple directness, human scale, and respect for reality that makes his MILLDUST AND ROSES such a sweet, kind, modest, touching, and unassuming book" -- David Budbill."MILLDUST AND ROSES is a beautiful tapestry, the substance of which describes an Ohio Valley working-class family from the mid-century onward" -- Holly Beye.

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Book Description:
Milldust and Roses: Memoirs by Larry Smith
About the Author:
Born in the industrial Ohio Valley in the 1940's, Smith has worked as a steel mill laborer, a

high school teacher, a college professor, and a writer. A graduate of Mingo Central High School, Muskingum College, and Kent State University,

he is the author of seven books of poetry(including Ohio Zen 1972 and Thoreau’s Lost

Journal 2001), two books of fiction (Beyond Rust and Working It Out), two literary

biographies (Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-At-Large 1984, and Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet

in America 2000) and a book of translations from the Chinese (Chinese Zen Poems 1997).

He co-produced two docu-dramas on Ohio writers (James Wright’s Ohio and Kenneth

Patchen: An Art of Engagement) and is the director of the Firelands Writing Center and

editor of Bottom Dog Press,Inc.

Smith is also the father of three adult children, and is married to Ann Smith a professor of

Nursing at the Medical College of Ohio. The author is a requested speaker on creative

writing, the American Transcendental writers, Zen Buddhist writings, working-class literature, and “The Art and Act of Writing Memoir:”

He is a professor of English and Humanities at BGSU Firelands College in Huron, Ohio, where he teaches writing, literature, and film. In 1998 he received the Ohioana Poetry Award. He has also been awarded a Fullbright Lectureship to Italy and an NEH

Fellowship.

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  • PublisherRidgeway Press
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 1564391140
  • ISBN 13 9781564391148
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages149

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