Here at last is Smith's 9th book of poems and one full of presence and poetry worth the wait. //
Larry Smith writes of life's constant and precious things--sunrises, birds, gardens, breakfasts, dogs, front porches and back yards. Teachers and poets. Parents and children. Those things that do not go away. Here is the conscious realization of all of them together as one in a personal matrix as simple and pure as the music of the moon. - mark s. kuhar, author of mercury in retrograde //
There's a Buddha in Larry Smith's Ohio garden. Peaceful, watchful and calm. Glide into these beautiful new poems like a bee, each one a petal of a bigger flower. -Allen Frost, author of The Mermaid Translation
Larry Smith's EACH MOMENT ALL takes a hard-eyed look at the sufferings human beings cause one another and the inequalities of the world we live in. And yet these poems take the full measure of human life, finding the peace and humor that reside in family, in love, and in those smallest, ordinary moments of each lived day. I especially admire the funny and spiritual poems about meditation here--"Wrapped in the Buddha"; "Final Pilgrimage"; "Walking a Field into Evening"--and the way their casual, unforced grace help us to live our lives. - Robert Cording