Tracy K. Smith Quotes
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Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.…
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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.
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For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and…
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I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And…
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Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere
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We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a…
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I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,
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Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
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