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

By: Smith, Tracy K [author.].
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, ©2018Description: 83 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781555978136.Uniform titles: Poems. Selections Genre/Form: Poetry. | Print books.
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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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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