{"product_id":"the-passenger-paperback-6","title":"The Passenger - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDale Martin Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn his latest collection, Toronto-based poet Dale Martin Smith invites us into a vivid lyric landscape, a looping personal voyage of reckoning and return.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of spare evocative poems, framed by two lyric essays, Smith presents a search for meaning in terms of memory, the self, and national narrative. \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e inhabits multiple iterations of selfhood across time, spanning over 30 years and starting with site-specific images of the author's experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Yemen in the early 1990s. The violence of US imperialism, the sacrifice of lives in the ongoing wars on terror, and the author's own lived encounters between cultures trace an echo of mnemonic layering. Smith subtly guides the experience of embodied but unsettled subjectivity, questioning the dominance of Western idealism and what it means to contend with national identity through recollection.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDale Martin Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several poetry collections, most recently\u003ci\u003e The Size of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e (knifeforkbook, 2024), a finalist for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003eFlying Red Horse\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks, 2021). His editorial contributions include \u003ci\u003eThat Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making\u003c\/i\u003e (University of New Mexico Press, 2025) and \u003ci\u003eAn Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson\u003c\/i\u003e (University of New Mexico Press, 2017). He is a professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University and lives in Toronto, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57192687370545,"sku":"9798891060494","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/0iMpz8Ae_99798891060494.webp?v=1793314893","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/the-passenger-paperback-6","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}