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Wade in the water : poems / Tracy K. Smith.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 83 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781555978136
  • 1555978134
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3619.M5955 A6 2018
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3619 .M5955 A6 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001429884

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81).

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.

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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