A Better Way to Smile Poems

by Eric B. Smith, Robert Wilson (Editor)

Overview

This book is about celebrating life through adversities. You will find poems that speak life while viewing love as a catalyst. Things that are tangible and real still holds preference for many hearts. A simple genuine smile is sometimes all people need to keep going. One may endure much to finally embrace realness and peace. Conquering life and its many challenges may very well start with ourselves. The purpose of this book is to shine a light on hope. Always striving, achieving, and growing, is a good recipe to live by. As we continue to live together, let us love together, build together, endure together, and maybe smile together.

EDITORS REVIEW
"In your poem "Dire Prayer" immediately took me back to my childhood growing up in the South and in the church. I felt as if the Pastor himself was talking to me and giving me the tools I needed to continue to live a Christian life. And again in your poem "Breakthrough" really spoke to my heavy Christian upbringing as well as "Dire Prayer" except this one spoke to me more in terms of overcoming a struggle, opening up to new things, and overcoming adversity. What was the inspiration for this poem? Then in "You're Not Alone" the same thing, these really spoke to my Christian background and whenever I go through something in my own personal life I know I'll always have someone to turn to when I'm in need of some grace. This manuscript certainly has a different overall tone than before. I feel more emotion, love, care, and religious themes throughout it. A strong sense of family and learning how to cope with the ups and downs of life is really refreshing in this book and in your writing, you gave great literary examples in your poetry".
"Overall your work is fantastic and I can tell your growth as a writer has truly blossomed, giving this book its own form of life".
Robert Lee Wilson III. Freelance editor and author of " IF POETRY WERE SHORT STORIES

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881105396
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/23/2023
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Eric Bruce Smith was born and raised in Oakland, California, on the eastside in a community, known as Brookfield Village. He's a proud father of three beautiful children and one grandson.

Smith is the author of “The Hidden Peace In Poems” published in 2021. These poems were an expression of Smith’s love for his family, friends, and his community. The book cover artwork was drawn by his daughter Serena Lea Smith.

Some of Smith's earlier accomplishments in literature planted the seed, signifying there would be more to come. Smiths' poem “In My Pocket There's A Mirror” is published in “Reflections of The Soul”, by The Poetry Guild, Ohio, 1997. He has work published in the Oakland Public Library found in book titled “Images and Voices of the Gold Rush”, edited by Joyce E Young, 1998. The poems are titled "Voices Of The Gold Rush" and "Effects Of The Gold Rush".

The Hidden Peace in Poems was featured in the January's edition of Publishers Weekly Magazine, 2022.

Smith’s book “The Hidden Peace In Poems” was critically reviewed by Author Reneé Drummond-Brown and published by Jerry Langdon of Erlangen, Germany, in the “Raven Cage Poetry and Prose Ezine-Issue #77.” Smith’s poetic works also appear in Issue #78, both in the year 2023.

Smith, appeared as a guest panelist on P. English Literature Global Writers Conference, hosted by Peter Okonkwo, of Nigeria, 2022. Smith, is also an author select for magazines and Anthologies titled “the Writing On The Wall Global Magazine-Issue 1and Issue 2”, and “It's Our Poems and We're Stickin’ to It Anthology” by Author Reneé Drummond-Brown and Renowned Writers from across the globe, 2023.

During Black History Month, February, 2023, Smith, appeared as a guest author on R3 Realeyes Realives Realize Book Club. His book “The Hidden Peace In Poems” was well received on that segment.