Wade in the Water

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The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the onesJangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they so buffered against, if not love s bladeSizing up the heart s familiar meat We watch and grieve We sleep, stir, eat.Love the heart sliced open, gutted, clean.Love naked almost in the everlasting street,Skirt lifted by a different kind of breeze. from Unrest in Baton Rouge 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 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 Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors reports of recent immigrants and refugees Wade in the Water is a potent and luminous book by one of America s essential poets. 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Smith For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I mean, she s the poet laureate for a reason These are beautiful poems I particularly enjoyed the erasure poems of black civil war soldiers seeking compensation On a craft level, these poems are impeccable They d...With a reading plan in place to complete a number of fun and rewarding challenges, 2018 looked bright The year actually got off to a great start and then real life got in the way This year is being devoted to family celebrations and just being with family so reading is going to be at a premium I opted out of all of my challenges, and culled my to read pile down to just those books that I am genuinely interested in or are what I called award winning game changers One of these game changers is With a reading plan in place to complete a number of fun and rewarding challenges, 2018 looked bright The year actually got off to a great start and then real life got in the way This year is being devoted to family celebrations and just being with family so reading is going to be at a premium I opted out of all of my challenges, and culled my to read pile down...Find this and other Reviews at In Tori LexThese poems are reflect how minorities in America have grappled with racism Each piece pulls at your senses and challenges you to thinkdeeply about the world around you The history of how black people survived slavery and reconstruction is often overlooked In the poemUnwrittenthe use of real correspondence of African Americans while fighting in the Civil War and surviving after, let s us glimpse into the deep cavern of history that has not b Find this and other Reviews at In Tori LexThese poems are reflect how minorities in America have grappled with racism Each piece pulls at your senses and challenges you to thinkdeeply about the world around you The history of how black people survived slavery and reconstruction is often overlooked In the poemUnwrittenthe use of real correspond...It s tough when the bottom of the book s cover reads By the Poet Laureate of the United States not that I wouldn t minds such baggage Tough to live up to the expectations And Tracy K Smith doesn t Not if you re looking for stop you in your tracks poems that make you want to reread just to hear the pleasant little jingle again I ve read poetry like that, and no, not a lot of that here.The best part is Smith s erasure poetry There s a brilliant section that must ve taken a lot of work S It s tough when the bottom of the book s cover reads By the Poet Laureate of the United States not that I wouldn t minds such baggage Tough to live up to the expectations And Tracy K Smith doesn t Not if you re looking for stop you in your tracks poems that make you want to reread just to hear the pleasant little jingle agai...Loved this collection of poems, especially those of the second section The erasure poem, Declaration, is immense, as is I Will Tell You The Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It, in which Smith uses sources from letters written by former slaves veterans of the US Army.I m relatively new to reading contemporary poetry, and am still learning what works for me personally, and what doesn t I spent a long time reading and re reading the poems from this collection, hoping it would eventually click, but something about it felt removed, closed off, and I can t say it resonated with me much overall There are a lot of different and interesting themes and topics, but I couldn t help feeling I d prefer to read them in a different form The few poems that I likedw I m relatively new to reading contemporary poetry, and am still learning what works for me personally, and what doesn t I spent a long time reading and re reading the poems from this collection, hoping it would eventually click, but something about it felt removed, closed off, and I can t say it resonated with me much overall There are a lot of different and interesting themes and topics, but I couldn t help feeling I d prefer to read them in a different form The few poems that I likedwere Deadly on Creation and destruction , Ash a personified haunted house , and the few domestic poems towards the end, such as 4 about ...On the whole I think now that Smith s style of poetry lots of couplets doesn t do much for me The found poems, which really seem to tell a story like Watershed and I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It , worked best for me and in ...Tracy K Smith is the United States Poet Laureate Wade in the Water is a collection of powerful poems about race, both historically, in our history of slavery specifically during the Civil War and not only slavery but the mistreatment of the black Union soldiers along with current examples of violence and hatred toward that which is othered in this country as in African American, Latinx, and Muslims.Smith writes in a fascinating variety of styles, from lyrical poems to ghazels to erasure Tracy K Smith is the United States Poet Laureate Wade in the Water is a collection of powerful poems about race, both historically, in our history of slavery specifically during the Civil War and not only s...Tracy K Smith was appointed Poet Laureate for the United States in 2017 How lucky the United States.Wade in the Water is her latest contribution to the wonderful world of poetry Written mostly in non rhyming prose, it describes and uses private experiences and public documents.My favorite sections are borrowed from real letters written by real people during the Civil War I have read so many books about slaves and their experiences, these poems were very real to me Smith is a professor at Pr Tracy K Smith was appointed Poet Laureate for the United States in 2017 How lucky the United States.Wade in the Water is her latest contribution to the wonderful world of poetry Written mostly in non rhyming prose, it describes and uses private experiences and public documents.My favorite sections are borrowed...A few sharp, resonant images aside, this pretty much left me cold Most of these poems read like vertically stacked prose.

Wade in the Water
  • 18 October 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 96 pages
  • Tracy K. Smith
  • Wade in the Water