Download or read book The Humility of the Brutes written by Ron Smith and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of Ron Smith’s new collection comes from Yeats’s observation that creators “must go from desire to weariness and so to desire again, and live but for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like terrible lightning, in the humility of the brutes.” The poems in The Humility of the Brutes move beyond Yeats’s journey, using precise language and memorable phrasing to push through skepticism and guide us toward the mystical as we struggle to understand our past and our present.