“I always felt there was this kernel of connectedness that he and I shared,” she says, “even though we veered in very separate directions.” Other poems in the collection consider his death, as well as black holes, metaphysics and the afterlife. When he died in 2008, Smith tells Kurt Andersen, she looked at the Hubble’s images of deep space with new curiosity. Smith’s interest in space also stems from her father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. 668 likes, 2 comments - Poems and Prose (litbowl) on Instagram: From Tracy K. “I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that’s as out there as alien life,' she said. Smith Book Genre: Poetry, Science Fiction ISBN 9781555975845 Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name: LifeonMars-TracyKSmith.pdf, LifeonMars-TracyKSmith.epub PDF File Size: 360 KB EPUB File Size: 1. He seemed to embody “the imagination as something that is capable of creating a whole new world and a whole new sense of self.” And the view back down to earth was equally captivating. Smith Edition illustrated Publisher Macmillan, 2011 ISBN 1555975844, 9781555975845 Length 75 pages Subjects Poetry American African American & Black. Full Book Name: Life on Mars Author Name: Tracy K.

Smith says she became “kind of obsessed” with Bowie’s extraterrestrial alter ego Ziggy Stardust in her 30s. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary.

The books is something of an elegy as a whole with many poems pertaining to death and the author’s struggle with the loss of her father. Smith examines the discoveries, failures, and oddities of humans. Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Life on Mars” contains many references to the man she salutes as the “Pope of Pop,” David Bowie. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Wade in the Water (2018) Life on Mars (2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Duende (2007). Smith’s Life on Mars is a collection of poetry dealing mainly in the search for a sense of purpose and the nature of people.

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