| Description |
83 pages ; 24 cm |
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Poetry marcgt |
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Selections |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81). |
| Contents |
Garden of Eden -- Angels -- Hill country -- Deadly -- Man's world -- World is your beautiful younger sister -- Realm of shades -- Driving to Ottawa -- Wade in the water -- Declaration -- Greatest personal privation -- Unwritten -- I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it -- Ghazal -- United States welcomes you -- New road station -- Theatrical improvisation -- Unrest in Baton Rouge -- Watershed -- Political poem -- Eternity -- Ash -- Beatific -- Charity -- In your condition -- 4 1/2 -- Dusk -- Urban youth -- Everlasting self -- Annunciation -- Refuge -- Old story. |
| Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. |
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"In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith's signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical, and wry--turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of the Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors' reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America's essential poets."--Publisher's description |
| Awards |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Poetry, 2019 |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781555978136 (hardcover) |
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1555978134 (hardcover) |
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9781555978365 (paperback) |
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1555978363 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
99976203494 |
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