Ordinary Light
A memoir
Published on 31. March 2015
368 pages
978-0-307-96267-6 (ISBN)
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The dazzling memoir from U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, author of Wade in the Water and Life on Mars. Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Denver Post In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. 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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TRACY K. SMITH is the United States Poet Laureate. She is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry, including Wade in the Water and Life on Mars, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a New Yorker, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, she lives in Princeton with her family.
Content
- Intro
- Other Titles
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue: The Miracle
- Part I
- My Book House
- Wild Kingdom
- Spirits and Demons
- Kin
- Leroy
- A Home in the World
- Part II
- MGM
- Little Feats of Daring
- Total Adventure
- Book a Big Band
- A Necessary Rite
- Humor
- Part III
- Uninvisible
- The Night Stalker
- Hot and Fast
- Shame
- Mother
- Epistolary
- Positive
- Part IV
- Kathleen
- Something Better
- The Woman at the Well
- A Strange Thing to Do
- I, Too
- Testimony
- Part V
- Another Dialect of the Soul
- Something Powerful at Her Side
- A Strange After
- Abide
- Clearances
- Epilogue: Dear God
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Reading Group Guide
