"The poems of Paul Smyth have appeared in magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry (which awarded him the Dillon Memorial Prize). His first collection, Conversions, published in 1974 by the University of Georgia Press, was followed by two books of poems illustrated by artist Barry Moser, and a collection of epigrams. Paul Smyth died in late 2006, just after completing last corrections on the manuscript for A Plausible Light."--BOOK JACKET.