Life on Mars Book Description

 

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

 

About the Book :

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.

About the Author :

Tracy K Smith has contributed to Life on Mars as an author. TRACY K. SMITH is the author of "The Body's Question," She received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 and a 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Princeton University.

Book Details

Title:	Life on Mars
Publisher:	Graywolf Press
Author:	Tracy K Smith
Edition:	Paperback
Language:	English
ISBN:	1555975844
EAN:	9781555975845
No. of Pages:	88
Publish Date:	2011-5-10
Binding:	Paperback

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