Description
In this bold second collection, the poems draw on duende—a dark, ecstatic creative force described by Federico García Lorca—to explore what emerges from struggle, desire, and the presence of death. Tracy K. Smith moves across personal experience, history, folk traditions, political resistance, and suppressed cultures, giving voice to lives shaped by violence, longing, and survival. Brooding yet luminous, the collection examines the uneasy intersections of love and war, knowledge and regret, loss and acceptance. These passionate, formally assured poems establish Smith as a distinctive contemporary voice and earned the collection the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published May 29, 2007
87 pages
ISBN: 9781555974756
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Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Duende by Tracy K. Smith.