In Poems from The Winter House, Daniel Smith explores the emotional road traveled when aging and circumstance cause one to leave the familiar for the unknown. With the acknowledgment that change is life's only constant, Smith traces the passage from one stage of life to the next, sometimes with harshness, sometimes with humor, but always with striking resonance.

Smith's poetry grows from a rural heritage where words come "low across the prairie/like rocks/rolled over virgin ground." Quietly reflective, filled with love for a spouse, a farm, and a way of life, Poems from The Winter House, celebrates the poet's acceptance of a new landscape, both internally and externally.