Tracy K. Smith

Atenta a la realidad de los refugiados, obligados a atravesar grandes masas de agua –ya sea en el Mediterráneo o en la frontera mexicano-estadounidense– para aspirar a una vida digna, Vaso Roto publi

Con este poemario ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2012, Tracy K. Smith nos acompaña en una odisea a través del universo y descubre, utilizando referencias tan variadas como la ciencia ficción o David Bowie, que en todo viaje de búsqueda existencial, también el poético, lo importante no es tanto responder las grandes cuestiones, sino asumir el misterio.

Chaque poème est sa propre histoire.Conflit pur. Sa propre perte.Brise de rêves, puis mort certaine.Reconnue comme l’une des figures les plus talentueuses de la poésie américaine contemporaine, Tracy

Chaque poème est sa propre histoire.Conflit pur. Sa propre perte.Brise de rêves, puis mort certaine.Reconnue comme l’une des figures les plus talentueuses de la poésie américaine contemporaine, Tracy

Con este poemario, ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2012, Tracy K. Smith nos acompaña en una odisea a través del universo y descubre, utilizando referencias tan variadas como la ciencia ficción o David Bowie, que en todo viaje de busqueda existencial, tambien el poetico, lo importante no es tanto responder las grandes cuestiones, sino asumir el misterio.Vida en marte nos hace cuestionarnos que pasa despues de la muerte.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018A New York Times Notable Book of 2018Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not loves bladeSizing up the hearts familiar meat?In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smiths signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical and wry - turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence. The various connotations of the title, taken from a spiritual once sung on the Underground Railroad which smuggled slaves to safety in 19th-century America, resurface throughout the book, binding past and present together. Collaged voices and documents recreate both the correspondence between slave owners and the letters sent home by African Americans enlisted in the US Civil War. Survivors reports attest to the experiences of recent immigrants and refugees. Accounts of near-death experiences intertwine with the modern-day fallout of a corporations illegal pollution of a major river and the surrounding land; and, in a series of beautiful lyrical pieces, the poets everyday world and the growth and flourishing of her daughter are observed with a tender and witty eye. Marrying the contemporary and the historical to a sense of the transcendent, haunted and holy, this is a luminous book by one of Americas essential poets.

A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggsThe New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire remarkable career. From the private experience of desire to the devastations of political strife, these poems enlarge our vocabulary for what it means to live, struggle, grieve and love.Smiths poetry is an awakening itselfVogueDeftly, Tracy K. Smith, the reigning poet laureate of the United States, illuminates Americas generational woundsNew York MagazineSmith is a storyteller who loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to history Hilton Als, New Yorker

A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America mighttogethercome to a new view of our shared pastA vulnerable, honest look at a life lived in a country still struggling with its evils...Hopeful...Beautiful and haunting. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin AgainIn 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the din of human division and strife. With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinkingpersonal, documentary, and spiritualto understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another.In Smiths own words, To write a book about Black strength, Black continuance, and the powerful forms of belief and community that have long bolstered the soul of my people, I used the generations of my own patrilineal family to lean backward toward history, to gather a fuller sense of the lives my own ancestors led, the challenges they endured, and the sources of hope and bolstering they counted on. What this process has led me to believe is that all of us, in the here and now, can choose to work alongside the generations that precede us in tending to Americas oldest wounds and meeting the urgencies of our present.To Free the Captives touches down in Sunflower, Alabama, the red-dirt town where Smiths fathers family comes from, and where her grandfather returned after World War Iwith a heros record but difficult prospects as a Black man. Smith considers his life and the life of her father through the lens of history. Hoping to connect with their strength and continuance, she assembles a new terminology of American life. Bearing courageous witness to the terms of Freedom afforded her as a Black woman, a mother, and an educator in the twenty-first century,Smith etches a portrait of where we find ourselves four hundred years into the American experiment. Weaving in an account of her growing spiritual practice, she argues that the soul is not merely a private site of respite or transcendence, but a tool forfulfilling our duties to each other, and a sounding board for our most pressing collective questions: Where are we going as a nation? Where have we been?

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America."Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." The Washington PostIn Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.

Con este poemario, ganador del Premio Pulitzer 2012, Tracy K. Smith nos acompaña en una odisea a través del universo y descubre, utilizando referencias tan variadas como la ciencia ficción o David Bowie, que en todo viaje de busqueda existencial, tambien el poetico, lo importante no es tanto responder las grandes cuestiones, sino asumir el misterio.Vida en Marte nos hace cuestionarnos que pasa despues de la muerte.