“If I lean unbuttoned into the blow Of loss after loss, love tossed Into the ecstatic void-- It carries me with it farther, To chords that stretch and bend Like light through colored glass. But it races on, toward shadows Where the world I know And the world I fear Threaten to meet.”
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet known for her profound poetry that often explores themes of race, identity, and human experience. Born on April 16, 1972, Smith graduated from Harvard University and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. Her poetry collection 'Life on Mars' won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. more
“A proof once established is better left so.”
“God give peace to the dead, the living have still to live. That is right, isn’t it?”