{"product_id":"magic-show-poems-paperback","title":"Magic Show: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDean Bartoli Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply introspective poetry collection that intertwines memory, loss, love, and artistic awakening, tracing a writer's life through elegy, exile, and rediscovery across America and beyond\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagic Show\u003c\/i\u003e is an emotionally rich and intricately structured poetry collection by Dean Bartoli Smith that traces a writer's life through the prisms of family, loss, art, and remembrance. Divided into three sections--Folly Beach, The Venus Looking Glass, and Ancient Eye--the book chronicles experiences spanning childhood in midcentury America, the ache of growing up amid fractured families, the beauty and pain of memory, and the redemptive power of creativity. These poems weave personal history with cultural memory, invoking landscapes from Baltimore to Italy, from amusement parks to seaside towns, revealing how places live on in the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough scenes of youth, grief, and artistic awakening, Smith's voice moves between elegy and vision, intimacy and myth. \u003ci\u003eMagic Show\u003c\/i\u003e becomes both a family album and a meditation on what it means to inherit and remake a life through words. \u003ci\u003eMagic Show\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply introspective poetry collection intertwining memory, loss, love, and artistic awakening, tracing a writer's life through elegy, exile, and rediscovery across America and beyond. Lyrical, visceral, and often cinematic in scope, this collection captures how love, loss, and faith offer resilience in the face of impermanence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMagic Show\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eDean Bartoli Smith\u003c\/b\u003e's third collection of poems. He's previously published \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sons\u003c\/i\u003e (Stillhouse, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Boy\u003c\/i\u003e (Washington Writer's Publishing House, 2000). He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eNever Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A City, A Championship Season\u003c\/i\u003e, about the 2012 Baltimore Ravens. He teaches in the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University and is the director of Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 9.01 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46547541950508,"sku":"9781949933369","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/wQAFwh4D1D9781949933369.webp?v=1793505143","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/magic-show-poems-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}