It's when Smith finds a center of gravity between primal emotion and moral conviction -- as in her arresting series of ''Gospels'' spoken by dispossessed Mexican migrants, and in elliptical meditative sequences like ''Self-Portrait as the Letter Y'' and ''Night Letters'' -- that she finds her most incisive voice. David Barber
The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."
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The Body's Question: Poems
The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."
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BN ID: | 2940171446192 |
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Publisher: | HighBridge Company |
Publication date: | 08/14/2018 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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