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Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be." 

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. 

The only thing worse than having a one-night stand with a ridiculously hot stranger during a snowstorm in Boston? Finding out he's your ex-boyfriend's father. In my defense, I didn't know the tall, brooding man in the tailored suit would turn out to be Joshua's dad. I also didn't expect him to...

A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—together—come to a new view of our shared past “A vulnerable, honest look at a life...

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In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.

She's trying to save her childhood home. He's the grump who's trying to buy her property. But when these sworn enemies get snowed in together with only one bed, all bets are off. When I first met Callum Reed, I thought he was one of the most handsome men I'd ever seen. Until he opened his mouth...

My best friend was never supposed to find my list of potential baby daddies. Now he's begging me to add one more name to my list… His. After my divorce, I was done with love. No more dating. No more relationships. But I still want a baby. IVF? Way too expensive. That leaves one option. Finding...

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of...

This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born...

Falling for the runaway bride is the last thing I need right now. And I definitely shouldn't offer her a job and a place to live. But somehow, that's precisely what I do. Once upon a time, I thought I had it all figured out. Until my life as I knew it turned on its head. Now I stick to what I...

Addiction, mental health and cancer recovery.

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by Tracy K. Smith A Penguin Classic Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves...

When a young drifter is found murdered in the desert outside of Palm Springs, the police start their investigation - but it's crime reporter Sam Perry who gets to the bottom of the story. Working her way backward to piece together the victim's mysterious life, Sam gets drawn into the seedier side of the glamorous resort town, a world of strip clubs, blackmail, and betrayal. All suspicions point toward former A-list actress and now mayoral candidate Ellen Konrad, a woman that Sam can't quite figure out.

From the biggest names in urban fiction comes a collection of unforgettable stories of urban love and its consequences.

En "Vida en Marte", reconocido por el New York Times Book Reviewcomo uno de los poemarios más destacados del 2001 y galardonado en 2012 con el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer de Poesía, Tracy K. Smith imagina una banda sonora para el universo. Su poesía, con referencias tomadas de David Bowie y de la ciencia ficción, acompaña a los hallazgos y fallos de la existencia humana para sugerirnos que lo importante no es tanto descubrir los enigmas del universo, sino asumir su misterio.

What's the worst thing you can do when in a marriage of convenience with your enemy? Fall in love with him. It's the perfect plan. He needs a wife in order to buy the vineyard where he's worked for years. I need a place to live with my four-year-old daughter. All I have to do is pretend I'm...