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goodreads review for ‘earth is part earth and there’s a hole in the sound I made you from’:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1606922645?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

and, books:

[eating the animal back to life], 315 pages, published July 2015

for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/eating-the-animal-back-to-life/paperback/product-22277755.html

for hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5eL2HQQr2c

of which Kazim Ali says:

Speaking of being captivated, when I was in Cleveland’s most exciting new independent bookstore, Guide to Kulchur, I picked up on a whim a few small volumes that appeared to have been published by the author using Lulu. I was so entranced by the seemingly simple but endlessly complex, prickly lyrics that I wrote to the author, Barton Smock, through his blog, kingsoftrain.wordpress.com. He’s been sending me books now and then and his latest, Eating the Animal Back to Life, is just knocking me out. These poems are desperate, tender, wry, alarmed, god-obsessed, and musically driven. Smock is not published by others, he does it all himself and so the only place you can get his books is [here]. All the advanced degrees and publishing credentials in the world can’t get you the unspeakable duende that Smock somehow taps into, poem after poem.

(from: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/11/pm-reading-list-november-2015/)

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[Drone & Chickenhouse], 84 pages, published October 2015

for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/drone-chickenhouse/paperback/product-22390933.html

for hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPk-g6KKio8

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[earth is part earth and there’s a hole in the sound I made you from], 98 pages, published December 2015

for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/earth-is-part-earth-and-theres-a-hole-in-the-sound-i-made-you-from/paperback/product-22503167.html

for hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3LQBepO1rw

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[MOON tattoo], 114 pages, published March 2016

for purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/moon-tattoo/paperback/product-22621263.html

for hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA5VYqmD79w