5/30/2023 0 Comments Tracy smith life on mars![]() ![]() Smith’s poetry to be high strung and exclusive. Maybe me and poetry aren’t so wrong for each other after all!Įducated at Harvard and Columbia, nurtured at Stanford and currently teaching at Princeton, you might expect Tracy K. Smith’s third published collection, had won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Imagine my surprise and delight to find out that this volume, Ms. ![]() When on a whim I picked up her 2011 collection, Life on Mars, and read one of the first poems, “My God – It’s Full of Stars”, I said to myself – “Woah – dang, I get this!” So when I stumble across a poet whose works do resonate, I tend to take notice. And often it’s the “best” poetry or the most decorated of poets that have me wondering just why it is that I don’t get it, why any sort of appreciation of what is being expressed eludes me, so I assume the lack is my own sensitivity, my own ability to understand or to accept a kinship with it. It makes me feel obtuse, uncomprehending. It’s too big for me, too delicate or too complicated, too deep. I appreciate that.īut often it seems that poetry is outside my ability to experience it, to connect with it. It speaks to that which often cannot otherwise find a voice. It’s an idiom that is unique, that uses the look and the cadence of language to enhance or encapsulate or simplify the ideas conveyed. I love poetry, or at least the idea of poetry. I’ll admit it – I often have problems reading poetry.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]()
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