Tracy Smith Libros

Set in 17th Century Jamestown, the narrative follows Anne Burras, who becomes the only woman among a sea of men after a personal tragedy. Faced with the daunting task of building a new life in a harsh and unforgiving environment, she navigates the complexities of her culture and gender. Her journey encompasses love, loss, and resilience, showcasing her unwavering determination and strength in overcoming adversity. Anne's inspiring story highlights the grit required to survive and thrive in the early days of the Virginia colony.

A collection of poems in which Tracy K. Smith examines the discoveries, failures, and oddities of humans.

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You are pure appetite. I am pureAppetite. You are a phantomIn that far-off city where daylightClimbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"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."

My Sunday Best captures the essence of the Sunday worship experience past, and present, for young children waiting for Sunday morning to don their best clothes to wear to church. Waking up to lace dresses, new suits, and shiny new shoes bring joy and excitement for church morning preparation. Seeing Grandma in church with her flamboyant hat, wondering if she has treasures of chewing gum and candy for them. Children wanting to play after church as the adults socialize and finally, the anticipation of a big Sunday dinner after church.

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States In Wade in the Water , Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. 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. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors’ reports of recent immigrants and refugees. Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets.