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The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States In Wade in the Water , Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith’s 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. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors’ reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.
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Wade in the Water, Tracy Smith
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- Année de publication
- 2018
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- Titre
- Wade in the Water
- Sous-titre
- Poems
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Tracy Smith
- Éditeur
- Graywolf Press
- Publié
- 2018
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 75
- ISBN10
- 1555978134
- ISBN13
- 9781555978136
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Fiction, Poésie, Littérature contemporaine, Race, Racisme, Littérature afro-américaine
- Description
- The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States In Wade in the Water , Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith’s 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. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors’ reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.