Life on Mars
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Baker & Taylor
Presents the third collection of new poems by the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet.
McMillan Palgrave
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Presents the third collection of new poems by the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet.
McMillan Palgrave
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York
Baker & Taylor
Presents the third collection of new poems by the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet.
McMillan Palgrave
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”
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Presents the third collection of new poems by the Pulitzer-prize-winning poet.
McMillan Palgrave
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, 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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Imprint:
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Graywolf Press
Pages:
75
ISBN:
9781555975845, 1555975844
Language:
English
Notes:
The weather in space -- Sci-fi -- My God, it's full of stars -- The universe is a house party -- The Museum of Obsolescence -- Cathedral Kitsch -- At some point, they'll want to know what it was like -- It & Co. -- The largeness we can't see -- Don't you wonder, sometimes? -- Savior machine -- The soul -- The universe : original motion picture soundtrack -- The speed of belief -- It's not -- Life on Mars -- Solstice -- No-fly zone -- Challenger -- Ransom -- They may love all that he has chosen and hate all that he has rejected -- The universe as primal scream -- Everything that ever was -- Aubade -- Field guide -- Eggs Norwegian -- The good life -- Willed in Autumn -- Song -- Alternate take -- Sacrament -- When your small form tumbled into me -- Us & Co
Statement of responsibility:
Tracy K. Smith
Characteristics:
75 pages ;,23 cm
Author (Original Script):
Smith, Tracy K.
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