Thursday, October 24, 2024

2024 read #123: Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith.

Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
76 pages
Published 2011
Read October 24
Rating: 4 out of 5

A meditation on loss, grief, and survivorship, spanning from the cosmic to the intimate. Grand science fiction promises of tomorrow unravel and lose their meaning in the violence of today. But life continues, in some fashion, through laundry and early mornings, through poverty meals and the memory of those gone. Smith's words are disarmingly direct, crisp and clean and quietly vital: "The grass bends / then learns again to stand."

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