Tracy K. Smith

The edge of all there is

by Keith Taylor

posted 9/26/2012

I'm almost ashamed to admit that I came to Tracy Smith's Life on Mars only after she won the Pulitzer Prize for it. I had seen the title, and I immediately remembered the wonderful David Bowie song, and I felt just a little suspicious of another poet going again to popular culture for a reference to elevate the poems into relevance. Boy, was I wrong!

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