Why

Harry Smith made works of impossible beauty. In life he was equally impossible, shattering every social norm. What if one took seriously Rimbaud's pronouncement to disorder the senses? Herein lies the answer — an accurate account of an earlier Harry, quite different from the more contented person he became in later years. This rings true to the Harry I knew in those years, and I'm delighted to see this book published.


Raymond Foye