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Sleep, Bee, deep and easy. Hive, heave, give, grieve. Then rise when you're ready from your soul's hard floorto sweet workor some war.- from "Bee on a Sill" Such Color: New and Selected Poems was a moving collection of Tracy K. Smith's poetry. Wade in the Water remains one of my favorite poetry collections so I really enjoyed the chance to revisit some poems from that work as well as from Smith's other collections. The poems cover a huge range of topics with Smith's knack for taking the abstract...
A collection of vivid poetry from US Poet Laureate Tracy Smith, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning "Life on Mars".
Tracy K. Smith’s collection of old and new poems, Such Colors, is a best hits album to attract old and new readers alike. There is a reason why Smith was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019; she has a way with words and form that make her readers engage in discussions on faith, history, belonging and race. Her use of language and sound echo through complex topics and impactful external sources which range from landscapes to news articles and song lyrics to African American C...
This collection is a fine sampling of Smith’s poems gathered from her award-winning body of work during the past two decades, demonstrating why she served not just one but two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate.Favorite Poems;“Appetite”“Shadow Poem”“Sci-Fi”“My God, It’s Full of Stars”“The Museum of Obsolescence”“They May Love Love All That He Has Chosen and Hate All That He Has Rejected”“The Universe As Primal Scream”“An Old Story”“Such Color”“The Elephant in the Room”
Smith is simply a genius. Could easily become a go-to collection like Oliver's Devotions. A good way for people to get into modern poetry imothanks to netgalley for the ARC
What a gift to revisit so many of Smith's wonderful moments and to read the new work. It's great to see it all here together and to trace the movement of this poet in time and space. Here are some favorite moments:Last night, it was bright afternoonThe hydrangea begins as a small, bright world.There was a sea in my marriage.What kind of game is the sea?THE UNIVERSE IS A HOUSE PARTY
I felt every word and punctuation in this collection. It reverberated through me and I could see, hear, and smell all of it. This is the kind of collection that will make you want to go back and edit all of your reviews because the scale of it all is off.
I've enjoyed Smith's poems everywhere I've encountered them, so I was surprised that this collection didn't resonate with me as much as I expected it to. Maybe I've been more exposed to her more recent work.
I'm counting this as read, even though I didn't read the whole thing. I've read all of Smith's previous collections (well, I've nearly finished with "Wade in the Water") and only read the new poems here.And they are spectacular. Collected under the title "Riot," these new works speak more immediately to the times we find ourselves in now. Like much of Smith's previous work, the poems have an incredible amount of control over language and playfulness with the form that makes them simultaneously a...
A dazzling collection of poems that feel urgent and relevant, whether from Smith's work in 2003 or written this year. She brings to life migrants, Black Civil War veterans, factory workers poisoned by chemicals, travelers and so much more. Her verse is simple yet elegant, evocative and fresh.
there is nothing wrong with her poetry, it just doesn't speak to me.
This is an excellent overview of Tracy K Smith's already astonishing life in poetry, with stirring selections from The Body's Question (2003), Duende (2007), Life on Mars (2011) and Wade in the Water (2018). Viewed chronologically, there is a real sense of momentum going from her early to more recent work, exploring with increasing intensity themes of injustice, generational trauma, mortality and spirituality. And then wow, the new poems are such compressed and urgent brilliance, signalling that...
What moves is invisible. Like music. I move in it, into it. What is the soul allowed to keep? We saw to the edge of all there is— So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.It feels Like nothing, until it lets me go.The earth is dry and they live wanting. Each with a small reservoir Of furious music heavy in the throat.I shout my name Into the traffic, and if my voice Is big enough, someone will hear it. It will land where it needs to land, And someone will catch it And come looking.We
This volume is divided into five parts:* poems from The Body's Question* poems from Duende* poems from Life on Mars* poems from Wade in the Water: Poems* new poems (this section is titled RiotSince I'd already read - and LOVED - Deunde, Life on Mars, and Wade in the Water, I skipped ahead to Riot, and then went back to The Body's Question. To my surprise, the new stuff didn't really grab me. I don't know why. They are good poems, but I loved Smith's previous collections so much, I was expecting
I Sit Outside in Low Late-Afternoon Light to Feel Earth Call to MeIs the world intended for me? Not just me butThe we that fills me? Our shadows reel and dart.Our blood simmers, stirred back. What ifThe world has never had—will never have—our backs?The world has never had—will never have—our backs.Our blood simmers, stirred back. What ifThe we that fills me, our shadows real and dark,Is the world intended for me?
“Such Color” includes new poems, as well as work from four earlier books. Smith’s poems are full of her usual lyricism, music, and resonance, while tackling subjects of the personal and the public, turned inward and outward, and back again.“This is not the riot.This is reality. It rolls,roils, briefly recoils.It hammers down. We fall,rebound. You chase,we race. You hate,we wait.”— excerpt from “Riot”
The new poems are fire.
She’s my favorite poet for a reason. An excellent collection of works. Loved all of the new poems included as well.
