Darryl Houston Smith is an American poet and member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). Writing from Lowell, MA, his work fuses dark romanticism with hyper-metric precision to explore the unflinching dualities of the human condition. He is the author of Resilience and The Fraud of Eternity (Dyad House). Influenced by Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jim Morrison, Houston Smith constructs strict poetic cages for the wildest of emotions. Hell is solid.
Darryl Houston Smith is an American poet and member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). Writing from Lowell, MA, his work fuses dark romanticism with hyper-metric precision to explore the unflinching dualities of the...
There is no such person as Jim Morrison. There is a leather-clad icon on a t-shirt, a drunken caricature in a biopic, and a poet buried in Paris under a slab of stone. But the man himself—James Douglas Morrison—has been missing for a long time. He has been swallowed by the Labyrinth.
HEAVEN IS A VAPOR. HELL IS SOLID. They promise us a detached perfection frozen in glass—a sterile dream designed to make the hours of torture pass. The Fraud of Eternity rejects the lie of salvation in favor of the unflinching reality of the flesh. Writing from the industrial shadows of Lowell, Massachusetts, Darryl Houston Smith dissects the...
I proudly dedicate this English-French edition to my 11-year-old self. As a survivor of ritualized mental cruelty and sexual abuse, I have always found strength and solace in the power of my words. In this collection of poems, Resilience, I boldly weave dark tales of strength—a living testament to the extraordinary ability of the human spirit to...
