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Life on mars book tracy k smith5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() But it can also spur reflection beyond you. Enjoying poetry might begin with your asking what you feel yourself, and then seeing how a poem can help you grow. Smith stresses that her desire to write is in large part rooted in the emotional effect of reading poems. (Her poem, "My God, It's Full of Stars," ends with "We saw to the edge of all there is- / So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.") The titles of the distinct works mirror this motion: from The Body’s Question, to Life on Mars. When discussing her own body of work, Smith says the questions at the heart of her poetry are: “Who are we to one another?" "What do we do to one another?" and, "What's the fallout from that?" In Smith's first collected volume of poetry, Eternity (May 2019), these meditations swing from geographies as private as a home (a marriage between two people), to as public as a country (contemplating citizenship), or even to as enormous and humbling as the cosmos. ![]() The Best Poetry Books You Should Read Right Now. ![]()
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