02564cam a2200397 i 4500 966905499 TxAuBib 20230907120000.0 170804s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017951515 9781555978136 1555978134 9781555978365 1555978363 99976203494 (OCoLC)988061502 TxAuBib rda Smith, Tracy K.,. Poems Selections. Wade in the water [book] : poems / Tracy K. Smith. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018] ©2018. 83 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81). A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. "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."--Publisher's description. 20230907. Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Poetry, 2019. American poetry 21st century. Nonfiction. Poetry. fast Poésie. rvmgf