Life on Mars: poems
β Scribed by Tracy K Smith
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2016;2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* 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 "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly , starred review)
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
** To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What**
** Would your life say if it could talk?**
__ --from "No Fly Zone"
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,...
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