April is National Poetry Month and Saturday 4/28 is Independent Bookstore Day. To get in the spirit, Third Man Books would like to extend a special offer to Vault members to spread the word(s) of poetry and our new book DESTRUCTION OF MAN by poet Abraham Smith. First 50 Vaulters who purchase DESTRUCTION OF MAN will receive two copies of the book for the price of one. We hope that you'll use the extra copy to turn on a reader who loves poetry or might want to try poetry for the first time. TURN ON, TURN THE PAGE, DROP OUT (with a book).

EACH COPY INCLUDES A TWO SONG FLEXIDISC. Get your copy here!

About DESTRUCTION OF MAN:

"Abraham Smith uses his words like a rhythmic sledgehammer upside the head." — Patterson Hood, co-founder and frontman of the Drive-By Truckers

DESTRUCTION OF MAN is a book: a book by a poet/farmer about farming and a family man and a familiar county--stung body; stung land--as told by a tweaked-to-warble farm machine that ate a human arm, and the chicken ate what's left, and the hawk ate what's left, and then the hawk died of old age. This is a book-length poem about small scale family farming in the midst of the get-big-or-get-out mantra and foghorn. The conclusions are clarion clear: rurality has its hectic musics and all we have is love.

Abraham Smith's DESTRUCTION OF MAN is a compass setting toward musics caught between the hungry teeth of vole and buried bone of river.—Tyehimba Jess, Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

About Poet Abraham Smith:

Abraham Smith is the author of five poetry collections, including the latest, DESTRUCTION OF MAN (Third Man Books, 2018), his book-length poem about farming. In 2015, he released Hick Poetics, a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Smith is an Assistant Professor of English at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.

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