5/13/2023 0 Comments Life on mars k smithWith 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. Women will still be women, but The distinction will be empty. History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. 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 There will be no edges, but curves. 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. 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. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself Smith deals with these confusing and puzzling relationships of human existence with the universe.
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