Life on Mars : poems / Tracy K. Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Tracy K.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2011]
Description75 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Poetry.
American poetry.
Fathers and daughters--Poetry.
African Americans--Poetry.

Contents The weather in space -- Sci-fi -- My God, it's full of stars -- The universe is a house party -- The Museum of Obsolescence -- Cathedral Kitsch -- At some point, they'll want to know what it was like -- It & Co. -- The largeness we can't see -- Don't you wonder, sometimes? -- Savior machine -- The soul -- The universe : original motion picture soundtrack -- The speed of belief -- It's not -- Life on Mars -- Solstice -- No-fly zone -- Challenger -- Ransom -- They may love all that he has chosen and hate all that he has rejected -- The universe as primal scream -- Everything that ever was -- Aubade -- Field guide -- Eggs Norwegian -- The good life -- Willed in Autumn -- Song -- Alternate take -- Sacrament -- When your small form tumbled into me -- Us & Co.
Awards notePulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2012.
LCCN 2011920674
ISBN9781555975845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1555975844 (pbk. : alk. paper)