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Minor Notes Vol. 1 features the work of three poets. Published in
1837, Poems by a Slave is one of the lesser-known works by George
Moses Horton (1798-1883), once popularly known as the 'black bard
of North Carolina.' Visions of the Dusk (1915) is an American prose
poem known for its formal innovation by Fenton Johnson, a poet,
essayist, editor and educator from Chicago. Georgia Douglas Johnson
was the most widely read black woman poet in the US during the
first three decades of the 20th century. Bronze: A Book of Verse
(1922) was introduced with a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Entering its tenth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a
crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry
lovers. The only publication of its kind, this annual anthology is
made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yet published a
full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling
represent the best from the many that have been nominated by the
country's top literary magazines and writing programs, as well as
some two thousand additional poems submitted through an open online
competition. The work of the fifty writers represented here
provides the best perspective available on the continuing vitality
of poetry as it is being practiced today.
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American
poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K.
Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology
that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988,
The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of
the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets). Each
volume presents a choice of the year's most memorable poems, with
comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work.
The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K.
Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are,
Toi Derricotte's words, "beautiful and serene" in their surfaces
with an underlying "sense of an unknown vastness." In The Best
American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of
works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri
Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Gluck,
Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young.
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, contemplates the dark matter that
keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy
concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of
Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here,
on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by
her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and
where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who
worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third
collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her
generation.
Winner of the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018 A New
York Times Notable Book of 2018 Even the men in black armor, the
ones Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else Are they so buffered
against, if not love's blade Sizing up the heart's familiar meat?
In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith's
signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical and wry - turns over what it
means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture
arbitrated by wealth, men and violence. The various connotations of
the title, taken from a spiritual once sung on the Underground
Railroad which smuggled slaves to safety in 19th-century America,
resurface throughout the book, binding past and present together.
Collaged voices and documents recreate both the correspondence
between slave owners and the letters sent home by African Americans
enlisted in the US Civil War. Survivors' reports attest to the
experiences of recent immigrants and refugees. Accounts of
near-death experiences intertwine with the modern-day fallout of a
corporation's illegal pollution of a major river and the
surrounding land; and, in a series of beautiful lyrical pieces, the
poet's everyday world and the growth and flourishing of her
daughter are observed with a tender and witty eye. Marrying the
contemporary and the historical to a sense of the transcendent,
haunted and holy, this is a luminous book by one of America's
essential poets.
'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in
both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble
plate of eggs' The New York Times US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
has gathered this selection spanning her entire remarkable career.
From the private experience of desire to the devastations of
political strife, these poems enlarge our vocabulary for what it
means to live, struggle, grieve and love. 'Smith's poetry is an
awakening itself' Vogue 'Deftly, Tracy K. Smith, the reigning poet
laureate of the United States, illuminates America's generational
wounds' New York Magazine 'Smith is a storyteller who loves to
explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to
history' Hilton Als, New Yorker
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