Smith’s father worked as an engineer on the Hubble Space Telescope, and she says that in a way, Life on Mars is an extended elegy to him- ‘he is only gone as far as we can tell’. Auden, Sylvia Plath, and a league of other poetry legends.
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been recognizing excellence in American verse since 1922, and as the latest recipient of the award, Smith joins a long list of the poetry elite, taking her place among names like Robert Frost, W.H.
It’s clear why this book won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize: it’s brave it’s visionary it’s important. But it’s hard to miss what’s extraordinary about Tracy K. There are some prize-winning books, which, to be honest, after reading, I haven’t felt any wiser as to why they received the accolades emblazoned on their covers.
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