In this brilliant collection of 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 kitschy concepts like 'love' and 'illness', now relegated to the museum of obsolescence. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe, accompanying the discoveries, failures and oddities of human existence and establishing Smith as one of the best poets of her generation.
- ISBN10 1555975844
- ISBN13 9781555975845
- Publish Date 10 May 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English