{"product_id":"life-on-mars-poems-tracy-k-smith","title":"Life On Mars: Poems;  Tracy K. Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife on Mars\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eimagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay 10, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTracy K. Smith is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWade in the Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife on Mars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDuende\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Body’s Question\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is also the editor of an anthology, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the author of a memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrdinary Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, Smith served as Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47798532899138,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/lifemars.jpg?v=1707850622","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/life-on-mars-poems-tracy-k-smith","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}