Such color : new and selected poems

Such color New and selected poems

Tracy K. Smith

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Subjects
American poetry > 21st century.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Tracy K. Smith (author)
Physical Description
221 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219).
ISBN
9781644450673
  • From Duende (2007)
  • History
  • Flores Woman
  • The Searchers
  • September
  • El Mar
  • Minister of Saudade
  • After Persephone
  • One Man at a Time
  • Now That the Weather Has Turned
  • Duende
  • Slow Burn
  • Theft
  • "I Killed You Because You Didn't Go to School and Had No Future"
  • "Into the Moonless Night"
  • Costa Chica
  • The Nobodies
  • From Life on Mars (2011)
  • The Weather in Space
  • Sci-Fi
  • My God, It's Full of Stars
  • The Universe Is a House Party
  • The Museum of Obsolescence
  • Cathedral Kitsch
  • It & Co.
  • The Largeness We Can't See
  • Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?
  • The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
  • The Speed of Belief
  • It's Not
  • Life on Mars
  • Solstice
  • Ransom
  • They May Love All That He Has Chosen and Hate. All
  • That He Has Rejected
  • The Universe as Primal Scream
  • The Good Life
  • Song
  • When Your Small Form Tumbled into Me
  • Us & Co.
  • From Wade in the Water (2018)
  • Garden of Eden
  • The Angels
  • Hill Country
  • Deadly
  • Wade in the Water
  • Declaration
  • The Greatest Personal Privation
  • I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All about It
  • Ghazal
  • The United States Welcomes You
  • Unrest in Baton Rouge
  • Watershed
  • Political Poem
  • Eternity
  • Ash
  • Beatific
  • Dusk
  • The Everlasting Self
  • Annunciation
  • An Old Story
  • Riot: New Poems (2021)
  • Riot
  • Bee on a Sill
  • A Suggestion
  • "You Certainly Have the Right to Your Thoughts in This Minefield"
  • We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On
  • Found Poem
  • The Elephant in the Poem
  • Mothership
  • Dock of the Bay
  • Photo of Sugarcane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891
  • The Wave after Wave Is One Wave Never Tiring
  • Some Trees
  • I Sit Outside in Low Late-Afternoon Light to Feel Earth Call to Me
  • Soulwork
  • Rapture
  • I Ask for Someone Who Has Lived It, Any Part of It
  • Logos
  • Riot
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Smith has earned praise from a litany of critics and poets alike for her deceptively breezy embrace of form and her deep engagements with subjects of race, faith, and language. This collection bundles several dozen poems from Smith's outstanding oeuvre with 18 new poems collected under the header "Riot," and bookended by two eponymous poems. The collected poems reflect the bright arc of Smith's career, from the instantly evocative "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y" ("I waved a gun last night / In a city like some ancient Los Angeles. / It was dusk") from her debut book, The Body's Question (2003), to the sf-inspired "My God, It's Full of Stars" in the Pulitzer Prize--winning Life on Mars (2011). The first of Smith's stunning new poems concludes with scandalously perplexing stanzas cascading down the page: "This is not the riot. / This is reality. It rolls, // roils, briefly recoils. / It hammers down. We fall, // rebound. You chase, / we race. You hate, // we wait." Smith's admirers will enjoy revisiting favorite poems and reading new works, while this volume will stand as a welcoming and dazzling introduction to Smith's poetry for first-timers.

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Pulitzer winner and former poet laureate Smith (Wade in the Water) returns with an incisive collection of poems from her four books as well as 18 new poems that reproach ignorance and denial while championing a collective voice for women and the Black community. Traversing history and continents, Smith considers the universe, "One notch below bedlam, like a radio without a dial./ Wide open, so everything floods in at once. And sealed tight, so nothing escapes. Not even time." Throughout, she contemplates how fortitude combats grief: "rapt, we watch it rise through our fallen,/ our slain, our millions dragged, chained./ Like day-light setting leaves alight-/green to gold to blinding white./ Like a spirit caught. Flame-inflesh." Some of the most poignant poems address racism and violence, illustrating their overlooked psychological burdens: "A nut drops onto fallen leaves/ And my heart leaps// What approaches through/ This ringing in the trees/ And what warning does it carry//From the sea?" Smith provides sensuous, lyrical narratives with oracular depth. Both timeless and urgent, this serves as a humbling and invigorating reawakening from sorrow and apathy. (Oct.)

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Review by Library Journal Review

Bidart, whose multiple awards include a Pulitzer, tops off five decades of writing with a book arguing Against Silence in its embrace of the world.

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