![]() With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. Smith, (born April 16, 1972, Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.), American poet and author whose writing often confronts formidable themes of loss and grief, nascent adulthood, and the roles of race and family through references to pop culture and precise descriptions of intimate moments. She has tried to explain this idea very well in two of her poems in the collection of Life on Mars: The Weather in Space and The Speed of Belief. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Smith deals with these confusing and puzzling relationships of human existence with the universe. ![]() You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself ![]()
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