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Body's Question by Smith, Tracy K.
Category: Poetry
The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States * Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize * You are pure appetite. I am pure Appetite. You are a phantom In that far-off city where daylight Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone. --from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y" The Body ...Show more
DUENDE by SMITH TRACY K
Category: Poetry
The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United StatesDuende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico Garc a 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 a ...Show more
Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ** A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyri ...Show more
The Best American Poetry 2021 by David Lehman; Tracy K. Smith (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "o ...Show more
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith
Category: Current Affairs
A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might-together-come to a new view of our shared past "A vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting." -Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of ...Show more
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
Category: Poetry
In her extraordinary new poetry collection, the Poet Laureate of the United States boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
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