The Body's Question: Poems by Tracy K. Smith (English) Paperback Book

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Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, "The Body's Question" debuts Tracy K. Smith's ambitious and engaging new voice"You are pure appetite. I am pure""Appetite. You are a phantom""In that far-off city where daylight""Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone."""—from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y""The Body's Question" by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."

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Recipient of the the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry prize for the best first book by an African American poet, The Body's Question confronts issues of loss, historical intersections between race and family and the threshold between childhood and adulthood.

Author Biography

Tracy K. Smith received degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. She currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Kevin Young Something Like Dying, Maybe I. Serenade Thirst Ni

Review

"How delightful it is to fall under the lucid and quite more than lovely spell of Tracy K. Smith's debut collection. Smith's work is deceptively plain-spoken, but these are poems that are powerfully wrought, inspiring in all the clarity of their many gospel truths. The Body's Question announces a remarkable new voice, brilliantly bundled, ingeniously belted down." --Lucie Brock-Broido

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"How delightful it is to fall under the lucid and quite more than lovely spell of Tracy K. Smith's debut collection. Smith's work is deceptively plain-spoken, but these are poems that are powerfully wrought, inspiring in all the clarity of their many gospel truths. The Body's Questionannounces a remarkable new voice, brilliantly bundled, ingeniously belted down." --Lucie Brock-Broido

Details ISBN1555973914 Author Tracy K. Smith Language English ISBN-10 1555973914 ISBN-13 9781555973919 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Short Title BODYS QUES Subtitle Poems DOI 10.1604/9781555973919 Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S. Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2011-06-30 NZ Release Date 2011-06-30 UK Release Date 2011-06-30 Pages 90 Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S. Audience General Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-10-01 US Release Date 2003-10-01 We've got this

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