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Wade in the Water : Poems by Tracy K. Smith is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize</b><br><b>Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection</b><br><b><br>The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States</b><br><br>Even the men in black armor, the ones<br>Jangling handcuffs and keys, what else<br><br>Are they so buffered against, if not love’s blade<br>Sizing up the heart’s familiar meat?<br><br>We watch and grieve. We sleep, stir, eat.<br>Love: the heart sliced open, gutted, clean.<br><br>Love: naked almost in the everlasting street,<br>Skirt lifted by a different kind of breeze.<br><br>—from “Unrest in Baton Rouge”<br><br>In <i>Wade in the Water</i>, 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 ut
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- Author
- Tracy K. Smith
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555978631
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (246 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14