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050	0	0	_aPS3619.M5955 _bL54 2011
082	0	0	_a811.6 SMI
100	1		_aSmith, Tracy K.
245	1	0	_aLife on Mars _b: poems _c/ Tracy K. Smith
260			_aMinneapolis, Minnesota _b: Graywolf Press _c, [2011]
300			_a75 pages _c; 23 cm
520			_aWinner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? --from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant 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.
586			_a2012 Pulitzer Prize
650		4	_aPoetry
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