With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. 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. 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. 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. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself Smiths Life on Mars is a collection of poetry dealing mainly in the search for a sense of purpose and the nature of people. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly). Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Wade in the Water (2018) Life on Mars (2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Duende (2007).
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