Rollerdrome and the Millionaire Poems Author:Fred Smith Black Sparrow takes pride in introducing one of America's finest gay poets whose flat, dry, conversational Midwestern voice speaks with honesty and self-deprecating humor about the buttoned-down 1950s, the unbuttoned 1960s, and the out, proud, but embattled decades that have followed. "Smith's impressive achievement," says fellow poet Tom Clark,... more » "is at least partly [due to] his consummate formal control," which he learned from his private tutor, poet Allen Tate. Though Smith has been writing lyrics and narratives for decades, Rollerdrome is his first book, published in 2002 at the age of sixty-eight.« less