Room Tone - Hardcoverby Vanessa Smith (Author) The "dailyness" in a Vanessa Smith poem is never dull, and never what's expected. Her west coast swagger is reminiscent of early Joni Mitchell "my face, like an interview, tells the most important stories first." Her "uploaded anguish," is that of a speaker who "wipes daily dabs of lipstick on the car carpet," saturating the space, making a hole in its place. She sees that a "rolling wave held something back in response to