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Set in 17th Century Jamestown, the narrative follows Anne Burras, who becomes the only woman among a sea of men after a personal tragedy. Faced with the daunting task of building a new life in a harsh and unforgiving environment, she navigates the complexities of her culture and gender. Her journey encompasses love, loss, and resilience, showcasing her unwavering determination and strength in overcoming adversity. Anne's inspiring story highlights the grit required to survive and thrive in the early days of the Virginia colony.

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"-- Provided by publisher

"Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the immense mysteries and conundrums of human existence. Each of Smith's four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep of history; when one encounters death and the outer reaches of space, the next bears witness to violence against language and people from across time, delving into the rescuing possibilities of the everlasting. Such Color collects the best poems from Smith's award-winning books and culminates in brilliant and excoriating new poems. These new works confront America's historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while they also rise toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred-urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. Now in paperback, this magnificent retrospective affirms Smith's place as one of the twenty-first century's most treasured poets"-- Provided by publisher

The story revolves around a child's longing for their grandmother, emphasizing the cherished memories and lessons learned from her. After missing a visit due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the child eagerly anticipates reuniting during Spring Break, highlighting the importance of family connections and the joy of shared experiences. The narrative captures the excitement and emotional significance of spending time with loved ones.

Avery's visit to her Grandma in the South reveals cherished family memories and an attic filled with treasures. Together, they embark on a heartfelt journey of transforming fabric items into a beautiful quilt, honoring the Southern tradition of quilting. This story beautifully captures the bond between generations while celebrating the importance of family heritage and creativity.

My Sunday Best captures the essence of the Sunday worship experience past, and present, for young children waiting for Sunday morning to don their best clothes to wear to church. Waking up to lace dresses, new suits, and shiny new shoes bring joy and excitement for church morning preparation. Seeing Grandma in church with her flamboyant hat, wondering if she has treasures of chewing gum and candy for them. Children wanting to play after church as the adults socialize and finally, the anticipation of a big Sunday dinner after church.

Tracy K. Smith's poetry seems to contain the whole universe. From the earliest work gathered here, we find the voices and experiences of women who have lived adventurously, who have travelled, desired, and found themselves drinking at bars with strangers in lands far from home; we find records of tenderness and of conflict, of the cruelty inflicted on humanity by humanity, and remarkable documentary work bearing witness to the victims of injustice, from a Native American boy separated from his family by the US Government to the girls kidnapped as 'wives' for rebel commanders in Uganda. This volume gathers the poet's selections from her four collections published since 2003, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars, which expands the scope still further, finding in outer space - and the work of David Bowie - a rich vein of questions about life and death, power and paternalism, and race; and Wade in the Water, whose explorations of motherhood and the destruction of the environment intertwine with verbatim histories of slavery and the American Civil War. These are sensuous, light-filled poems, capable of finding the luminous, the transcendent and a principle of love in even the most difficult of subjects.

In these inquisitive, luminous poems, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith ranges over the past and present, from slavery to corporate pollution. Wade in the Water is a soulful meditation on what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture dominated by wealth, men and violence: on what threatens life, and what sustains it.

American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Eduardo C. Corral, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Robin Coste Lewis, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Brian Turner, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars 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. "Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." —The Washington 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.