Smith, Carmen Gimenez, — Goodbye Flicker: poems.

Amherst, MA, Univ of Massachusetts Press, (2012). VG PB. Interior life of a girl who has a dead-beat dad and her escape into a fantasy world of language, beauty, and the surreal. Takes on poetry, family, myth, fairy tale, memory, love, history, and plain ordinary human stories. Smith is the publisher of Noemi Press, editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol,and an asst. professor of MFA program in creative writing at NM State University. "I'm the doll in the highest turret where I cast my mother into gnarls and sire infants who consume the last slivers of me.".