NEW YORK — Tracy K. Smith, the country's new poet laureate, would like to start a conversation.
"A poem asks you to let go many of your
assumptions, move away from your own certainties and to listen," says
Smith, 45, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose appointment to a one-year term
was announced Wednesday by the Library of Congress.
Smith, who succeeds Juan Felipe Herrera, won
the Pulitzer in 2012 for her poetry collection "Life on Mars" and was a
National Book Award finalist for nonfiction three years later for her
memoir "Ordinary Light." She has been praised for her command of
language and emotions, for a vision that encompasses everything from
space exploration to the death of her father, and her gift for both
social commentary and personal reflection.
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