Tracy K. Smith

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers...

In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting....

Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival....

A TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that explores how we in America might—together—come to a new view of our shared past “A vulnerable, honest look at a life...

These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, and where celebrities and pop stars walk among us....