5/24/2023 0 Comments Tracy k smith wade in the water![]() ![]() ![]() Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America’s essential poets. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection includes erasures of the Declaration of Independence and correspondence between slave owners, a found poem composed 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. ![]() Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Graywolf Press, 250 Third Avenue North, Suite 600, Minneapolis, MN 55401, 2019, 96 pages, $16 paper, For my last poet in #nationalpoetrymonth, this book is too perfect. ![]()
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