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Graywolf Press
May 2011
On Sale: May 10, 2011
88 pages
ISBN: 1555975844
EAN: 9781555975845
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Fiction Poetry
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 of Obsolescence.
These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the
ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by
her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among
us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the
engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With
this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself
among the best poets of her generation.
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