Tracy K. Smith

Life on Mars

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Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
* A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice *
* A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *
New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose “lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from “No Fly Zone”


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,…
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  • Aldair Apodacahas quoted2 years ago
    Down through flesh into the body’s own hell. Sometimes
    It takes forever for that song only the animals know
    To climb back up into air as if to burst the throat.
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    You know how, shoulders hiked nice and high, chin tipped back,
    So the song has to climb its way out like a man from a mine
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    The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.
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