Tracy K Smith

"In Ordinary light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter." --P.4 of cover.

With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum...

Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico Garcia Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament...

Con este poemario, ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2012, Tracy K. Smith nos acompaña en una odisea a través del universo y descubre, utilizando referencias tan variadas como la ciencia ficción o David Bowie, que en todo viaje de búsqueda existencial, también el poético, lo importante no es tanto responder las grandes cuestiones, sino asumir el misterio. Vida en marte nos hace cuestionarnos qué pasa después de la muerte.

"First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions...

This anthology explores and celebrates the United States and the lives of those who live there. American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities...

Offering candid accounts of the ways writers work, think, and live, a book based on a series of talks pairing writers of note at a beloved New York bookstore features conversations with such authors as Patti Smith and Rivka Galchen.