Tracy K. Smith
Autor(a) de Life on Mars: Poems
About the Author
Tracy K. Smith is the author of three previous books of poetry, including Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body's Question, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for mostrar mais Our Time, and the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017, Smith was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University. mostrar menos
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Associated Works
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-04-16
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Fairfield, Californië, USA
- Ocupação
- dichter
- Premiações
- Whiting Writers' Award (2005)
Poet Laureate of the United States (2017)
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- Membros
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- Popularidade
- #15,367
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Resenhas
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- ISBNs
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from To Free the Captives by Tracy K. Smith
“Communion across the mortal divide,” Smith calls it. The link backwards through time to all who came before, those connected by blood, and those connected by common experience and history.
There is strength in this connection, and a circle of family that transcends family.
I have felt that connection. I have traced my ancestors back centuries. To a man persecuted for his Anabaptist faith, imprisoned and his goods confiscated, his family turned out of their home. To the Swiss Brethren minister, an early settler in the Shenandoah Valley, who was scalped and killed, along with his wife and several children; luckily, my distant grandmother escaped.
Smith traces her ancestors back to the Middle Passage, to slavery, to Sunflower, Alabama where he father was born. Hers were Freed people–not Free–for there is a difference between born to freedom and being granted freedom. Freedom granted can be taken away.
Smith shares her family history and her own story in this luminous memoir. She struggles with the past and shares her concerns for the future awaiting her sons. She responds to the murder of black youth and wonders about America’s future.
This hauntingly beautiful and moving memoir offers revelation and hope for the future.
Thanks to the publisher for a free book.… (mais)