Biographical notice

Robert  M. SMITH was born in 1948 and raised in Ottawa.  He dropped out in 1967, hitch-hicked across Canada and Europe, partaking in the Revolution everywhere, and finally completing a B.A. in French literature in 1969.  A true child of the sixties, he lived in Greenwich Village and Berkeley, California.  Returning to university in 1980, he became a translator and is now raising a family in Montreal.  Robert SMITH has published in literary magazines and is known for his books.  Poems & Tales from the River Styx is a testimony for a whole generation which is now aging, but still very much alive and kicking.  It explores themes such as death, alcoholism, exploitation in factories, violent revolution, as well as Robert's own excentric brand of spirituality.  Definitely wicked adult reading!

Books

SMITH, Robert M.  I've Been so Happy since I Got my Lobotomy, Commoners Publishing, Ottawa,  Ontario, 1982 (second edition 1990), 64 p.  ISBN 0-88970-046-X

SMITH, Robert M.  Intimate Raps with the Morning Star, International University Press, Independence, Missouri, 1986, 53 p.  ISBN 0-89697-262-3

SMITH, Robert M.  True Confessions of a Bunny Rabbit from Hell, RMS Publishing, Montréal, Québec, 1990, 108 p. ISBN 0-9694376-0-9

SMITH, Robert M.  Lands of Exile, Topeda Hill, Baldwin's Mill, Québec, 1994, 61 p.  ISBN 0-9698258-0-3

SMITH, Robert  M. Poems & Tales form the River Styx, Teichtner, Laval, 1998, 118 p., ISBN 2-922243-00-1

SMITH, Robert  M. Rumpleforeskin Meets the Abomination of Desolation, Teichtner, Laval, 2004, 196 p., ISBN 2-922243-10-9