Description
This ambitious collection of poetry moves fluidly between personal memory, American history, and the urgent crises of the present. Tracy K. Smith confronts slavery’s enduring legacy, environmental and political injustice, motherhood, citizenship, faith, and the possibility of connection across time and distance. Drawing on lyrical meditation, documentary fragments, spirituals, and multiple voices, the poems are at once intimate and expansive, clear-eyed about suffering yet sustained by compassion and hope. In Smith’s inquisitive, richly layered style, art and love emerge as radical forces for listening, remembrance, and transformation.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2018
96 pages
ISBN: 9780141987842
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith.