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29 mag 2017 · Poems. Wade in the Water. By Tracy K. Smith. May 29, 2017 ... I love you in the waterWhere they pretended to wade,Singing that old blood-deep song That dragged us to those banksAnd cast us in.
3 apr 2018 · Wade in the Water: Poems Hardcover – April 3 2018. by Tracy K. Smith (Author) 4.6 240 ratings. See all formats and editions. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot PrizeFinalist for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionThe extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men in black armor, the ...
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The title poem from Wade in the Water (2018) is about this power of art to bridge distance not only to each other but also to the past. “Wade in the Water” is about encountering and listening to a stranger with love, even when the act of love is a difficult one, burdened with the pain of history. The speaker is at a performance of the ...
In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy.
3 apr 2018 · Audio CD – CD, April 3, 2018. In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past ...
3 apr 2018 · In Wade in the Water, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith's signature voice - inquisitive, lyrical and wry - turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence. The various connotations of the title, taken from a spiritual once sung on the Underground Railroad which ...
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Smith, Tracy K. Wade in the Water. Minneapolis, Graywolf Press, 2018. Hardcover. In the opening poems, everyday scenes become divine: in “Garden of Eden,” it is remembered fruit; in “The Angels,” it is caring bikers or striking weather.
