Description
In this inventive, expansive collection of poems, the mysteries of outer space become a lens for examining the equally strange terrain of human life. Drawing on science fiction, David Bowie, interplanetary travel, family history, and the poet’s experience of loss, the poems move between cosmic vastness and intimate earthly realities. Tracy K. Smith explores isolation and connection, mortality and memory, love and illness, and the human search for meaning in an indifferent universe. Lyrical, imaginative, and intellectually daring, the collection brings the distant stars and the complexities of everyday existence into striking conversation.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
75 pages
ISBN: 9781555975845
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith.