PACES THE CAGE Theorie van de Zieke Vrouw In this fragmentary document there

In this fragmentary document there is a celebration in the cobbling together of lives

Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality

Thinking with Sembéne

metaphysics and a sad horse

he once said

PACES THE CAGE Theorie van de Zieke Vrouw In this fragmentary document thereS*an D. Henry Smith S*an D. Henry Smith's second full length book of poems, Paces the Cage, lifts off from their previous book by expanding an already queered language to near breaking point. Through the complexities of Henry Smith's personal experiences and the use of a poetically fragmented voice, the literal and metaphorical are remixed in real time. Henry Smith's occasional inclusion of ambient sounds, stage directions, lighting cues and an