Title from disc label. Poems. Read by Tracy K. Smith. Compact discs.
Contents:
An old story. The angels -- Hill country -- Deadly -- A man's world -- The world is your beautiful younger sister -- Realm of shades -- Driving to Ottawa -- Wade in the water -- Declaration -- The greatest personal privation -- Unwritten -- I will tell you the truth about this, I will tell you all about it -- Ghazal -- The United States welcomes you -- New road station -- Theatrical improvisation -- Unrest in Baton Rouge -- Watershed -- Political poem -- Eternity -- Ash -- Beatific -- Charity -- In your condition -- 4 1/2 -- Dusk -- Urban youth -- The everlasting self -- Annunciation -- Refuge -- An old story.
Summary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith 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.
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