Summary
Bearing witness to the best and worst of humanity, a selection spanning twenty years of luminous poetry by the US Laureate.
Tracy K. Smith’s poetry seems to contain the whole universe. From the earliest work gathered here, we find the voices and experiences of women who have lived adventurously, who have travelled, desired, and found themselves drinking at bars with strangers in lands far from home; we find records of tenderness and of conflict, of the cruelty inflicted on humanity by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141987866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141987863 |
| Author: | Tracy K. Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself
Smith’s poetry is an awakening itself * Vogue *
Deftly, Tracy K. Smith, the reigning poet laureate of the United States, illuminates America’s generational wounds * New York Magazine *
Smith is a storyteller who loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to history – Hilton Als * The New Yorker *
About The Author
Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith’s four poetry collections are The Body’s Question (2003), Duende (2007), Life on Mars (2011) and Wade in the Water (2018). She won the Pulitzer Prize for Life of Mars. She is also the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017 she was named Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
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