Description
This acclaimed debut poetry collection explores desire, memory, loss, race, family, and the uneasy passage from childhood into adulthood. Moving through love poems, travel poems, confessions, and encounters with history and literature, the poems follow a young woman as she confronts the many selves shaped by experience—and discovers the freedom to become anyone she might be. Hunger, both physical and emotional, pulses throughout the collection, while vivid imagery and lucid, deceptively plain-spoken language transform private feeling into moments of startling revelation. Beginning with a serenade and closing with a prayer, the book announces a powerful new poetic voice marked by emotional courage, formal precision, and luminous grace.
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paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
90 pages
ISBN: 9781555978655
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith.