![]() Being out there felt like an imagined place. I always think about things I read in the news or NPR. ![]() I was thinking about the universe as the American space. The first poems I set out to write broke that silence. “A lot of this book came out of grief for my father, wanting to imagine a proper afterlife and sustain that closeness with him,” says Smith. Smith used verse, multiple pop cultural references and descriptive imagery to address her father’s 2008 death, womanhood, motherhood, spirituality and her attraction to 1960s and ’70-era science fiction films. The poetry collection was an introverted Smith’s cathartic process. In 2012, the Falmouth, MA native was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her imaginative 2011 collection, Life on Mars. ![]() Smith is one of modern literature’s leading African American poets and creative writing instructors. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |