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Carmen Gimenez Smith

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New York, NY, The United States

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Formerly a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, Carmen Gimenez Smith is now an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University, the publisher of Noemi Press, and the editor-in-chief of PUERTO DEL SOL. Her work has most recently appeared in MANDORLA, COLORADO REVIEW and PLOUGHSHARES and is forthcoming in jubilat and DENVER QUARTERLY. She is the author of ODALISQUE IN PIECES (University of Arizona Press, 2009) and BRING DOWN THE LITTLE BIRDS (University of Arizona, 2010). She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico with her husband and their two children.

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	Milk and Filth (Camino del Sol) 4.01 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (Camino del Sol) 4.23 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cruel Futures (City Lights Spotlight, No. 17) 3.89 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odalisque in Pieces (Camino del Sol) 4.51 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodbye, Flicker 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The City She Was (Mountain West Poetry Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing by Carmen Gimenez Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John M. Chavez (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Mejia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We Talk Here 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glitch 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reason's Monsters by Carmen Gimenez Smith (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Naughton liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The distinction between fiction and nonfiction blurred.”
― Carmen Giménez Smith, Be Recorder: Poems

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“will you hold my curls when I'm expelling phantoms/ who open tunnels into the past will you consider the sky/ contra the west with its grinding machines will you Spartacus/ with me will you jump in and fight can it be your caravan too/ record my face lover record my limbs record them for/ us all I'm lucky I'm lucky I'm so lucky that I'm lucky”
― Carmen Gimenez Smith, Be Recorder: Poems

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“Also your breath reaches my lungs
like the flutter of a typhoon-making butterfly.
The improbable third ear. The wrinkled corners of your eyes.
The consequence of leaning up on an elbow for the imprint
of your face on my gloppy retina.”
― Carmen Giménez Smith, Glitch

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