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Moment by accessible moment, the reader is challenged to reconcile their own growing pains. These poems shine a light on disenfranchised and desperate parents, the ghost of nonage, and layers of one family's coming apart. Mostly, there is no judgement. If it's possible to stop \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe sins of the father, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Smith has done so by becoming a parent with understanding and remembrance. He works to make it right. In \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrongman Contest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e we read what human beings rarely have the audacity to say, let alone leave a trail of poems that ache with truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stellasue Lee, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueen of Jacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven M. 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