

Smith boldly ties Americas contemporary moment both to our nations fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. from Unrest in Baton Rouge In Wade in the Water, Tracy K.

Love: naked almost in the everlasting street, Skirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. Love: the heart sliced open, gutted, clean. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else Are they so buffered against, if not loves blade Sizing up the hearts familiar meat? We watch and grieve. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K.
