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These historical poems have a homely, unvarnished sort of grace."--The New York Times "The poems in Wade in the Water are full of memorable images nimbly put together by Smith's exquisite sense of timing and her feel for the kind of language appropriate to the poem."--The New York Times Book Review
3 mar 2022 · The found and erasure poems are not the whole of Wade in the Water; Smith’s fully original work is just as deeply felt, and, when written about her family, provides a visceral connection to the voices from the past. In the poem “Dusk,” for example, Smith writes about her daughter: What woke to war in me those years
I love you in the rusted iron Chains someone was made To drag until love let them be Unclasped and left empty In the center of the ring. I love you in the water Where they pretended to wade, Singing that old blood-deep song That dragged us to those banks And cast us in. I love you, The angles of it scraping at.
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. 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.
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. 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.
Wade in the Water: Poems - Ebook written by Tracy K. Smith. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Wade in the Water: Poems.
30 apr 2022 · April 30, 2022 / 2 Comments / in Poetry, Reading / by Bethany. WADE IN THE WATER, Tracy K. Smith. Graywolf Press, 250 Third Avenue North, Suite 600, Minneapolis, MN 55401, 2019, 96 pages, $16 paper, www.graywolfpress.org. For my last poet in #nationalpoetrymonth, this book is too perfect. Here’s Graywolf Press’s description:
