Before and After, his fourth volume, is his most powerful collection to date—with poems so short and direct they hit home like a knife to the heart.
In Before and After, Smith effectively captures the intimate life of one family—in all its courage, deceit, misery, madness, love, revelation, and rage—and transforms it to record the life of the American family.
- ISBN10 039331555X
- ISBN13 9780393315554
- Publish Date 9 April 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 February 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 74
- Language English