Books written by Tracy K. Smith

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  Such Color: New and Selected Poems

  These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that ...

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  The Body's Question: Poems

  The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States * Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize * You are pure appetite.

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  Life on Mars: Poems

  With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.

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  Wade in the Water: Poems

  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.

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  There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

  2020: We are living through an unprecedented, revolutionary era. The Covid-19 crisis has cost people loved ones, livelihoods, and homes. Protests erupted over the constant brutality against Black Americans.

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  American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time

  A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and ...

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  Ordinary Light: A Memoir

  Here is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.

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  Ordinary Light: A memoir

  Ordinary Light is the story of a young woman struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.

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  Ordinary Light: A memoir

  Here is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.

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  There's a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

  They are noisy with beauty, and their pieces ring louder and clearer than ever before. Galvanizing and lyrical, this is a deeply profound anthology of writing filled with pain and beauty, warmth and intimacy.

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  Duende: Poems

  Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.

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  Such Color: New and Selected Poems

  These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that ...

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  Best New Poets 2015: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers

  "In Best New Poets, the term 'emerging writer' is defined as someone who has yet to publish a book-length collection of poetry.