Life on Mars - By Tracy K. Smith - Book Review - The New.
Life on Mars .science within it. Tracy K. Smith uses her poems to draw our attention towards the science used in everyday life. Throughout her book of poems Life on Mars she uses mystical beings or characters to help portray the science around us. Smith starts off the book with a poem called “Sci-Fi” (pg7); having science plainly in the name of the poem she gets the point across that the.
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Tracy K. Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Life on Mars” contains many references to the man she salutes as the “Pope of Pop,” David Bowie. Smith says she became “kind of.
Smith’s first collections of poetry—The Body’s Question (2003), Duende (2007), and Life on Mars (2011)—were all well received. Her work languidly and skillfully shifts from expansive issues to everyday occurrences, imbuing the ordinary with significance and providing a place for the incomprehensible in everyday life. Smith received the 2012.
With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like.
Tracy K. Smith is the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Life on Mars. Duende, her second book, received the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
About Smith, Academy of American Poets Chancellor Toi Derricotte said: “The surfaces of a Tracy K. Smith poem are beautiful and serene, but underneath, there is always a sense of an unknown vastness. Her poems take the risk of inviting us to imagine, as the poet does, what it is to travel in another person’s shoes. The Academy is fortunate to be able to confer this fitting recognition on.