![]() ![]() To call Smith meditative is true, of course, and this book is at its basis a powerful elegy for her father her voice also has a note of prophetic vision. Perhaps it is this incredible breadth that impresses me the most in this text: Smith guides us from upstairs hallway to stars with the same authoritative gaze, which at once wonders at and accepts all of the component parts. My experience reading the book was such that it’s hard to know where to start-with the elegant unraveling of sentences, the daring scope that encompasses the intimate and universal, the precision of description. Life on Mars is Smith’s third collection, following Duende and The Body’s Question (both from Graywolf). ![]() last spring, and now can add, too, the immense pleasure of encountering her word on the page. I had the pleasure of seeing Smith read with the Dark Room Collective in D.C. Smith’s Life on Mars( Graywolf), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Shamefully, I have only just now discovered Tracy K. ![]()
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