Sand on Skin, Expanded Edition, is a re-issue of William J. Smith's popular 2005 book of poetry, now containing 37 poems, including several previously unpublished, all written mindfully in styles ranging from Haiku to Traditional to Concrete, capturing insights and moments of change from our turbulent 20th Century experience.
Author Biography:
Bill Smith is a 67 year-old Canadian author with a rich and varied background. A veteran of several universities, two marriages, two revolutions, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and "many bad habits", Bill's occupations have included merchant mariner, intelligence officer, magazine publisher, filmmaker, television and video producer, offshore consultant, environmental researcher, and advertising entrepreneur. Bill's interests include a wide range of Eastern and Western philosophies, literature, religions, and visual and kinetic arts. In his writing, Bill draws on his life experience as a world traveller, poet, gang member, psychedelic pioneer, gun runner, mercenary, rock 'n roll promoter, gourmand, critic, raconteur, hedonist, skeptic, and bon amis. Bill Smith currently resides with his wife in the bucolic backwater of Port Colborne, Ontario, where he lives by "a great grey changeable lake", and enjoys "rolling around with large dogs", and "entertaining amenable friends".
