<div><p>With a mix of political commentary and lyricism in a range of forms, <i>Touché</i> evokes an adrenaline rush as the reader is swept up into Rod Smith's unique blend of humor.</p><p><b>I am no I I slight</b></p><p><i>I've taught myself to unwrite<br>&amp; then wreathed, saturate, blank<br>the severed glinting worlds rebelieve<br>or they all access overall not-so, a not-so<br>lucid, a lucid one, the squirrels that I live there<br>^.^ ~ alright then, alright mr squirrel there, yep.</i></p><p><b>Rod Smith</b> edits the journal <i>Aerial</i>, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Smith co-edited<i>The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley</i>, (University of California Press, 2014).</p><br></div>