Wade in the water : poems /
Smith, Tracy K.,
Wade in the water : poems / Tracy K. Smith. - 83 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81).
Garden of Eden -- Angels -- Hill country -- Deadly -- Man's world -- World is your beautiful younger sister -- Realm of shades -- Driving to Ottawa -- Wade in the water -- Declaration -- Greatest personal privation -- Unwritten -- I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it -- Ghazal -- United States welcomes you -- New road station -- Theatrical improvisation -- Unrest in Baton Rouge -- Watershed -- Political poem -- Eternity -- Ash -- Beatific -- Charity -- In your condition -- 4 1/2 -- Dusk -- Urban youth -- Everlasting self -- Annunciation -- Refuge -- Old story.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
9781555978136 1555978134
99976203494
2017951515
Poetry.
PS3619.M5955 / A6 2018
811.6
Wade in the water : poems / Tracy K. Smith. - 83 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81).
Garden of Eden -- Angels -- Hill country -- Deadly -- Man's world -- World is your beautiful younger sister -- Realm of shades -- Driving to Ottawa -- Wade in the water -- Declaration -- Greatest personal privation -- Unwritten -- I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it -- Ghazal -- United States welcomes you -- New road station -- Theatrical improvisation -- Unrest in Baton Rouge -- Watershed -- Political poem -- Eternity -- Ash -- Beatific -- Charity -- In your condition -- 4 1/2 -- Dusk -- Urban youth -- Everlasting self -- Annunciation -- Refuge -- Old story.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
9781555978136 1555978134
99976203494
2017951515
Poetry.
PS3619.M5955 / A6 2018
811.6