Start by marking “Wade in the Water: Poems” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I spent a long time reading and re-reading the poems from this collection, hoping it would eventually click, but something about it felt removed, closed off, and I can't say it resonated with me much overall.

A reflection on history and America’s current moment, Wade in the Water centers on a series of erasure poems in which the entirety of the poem is composed of words from a source text…

TKS’s poems are beautiful, great poems. I love you,I love you, as she continuedDown the hall past other strangers,Each feeling pierced suddenlyBy pillars of heavy light.I love you, throughoutThe performance, in everyHandclap, every stomp.I love you in the rusted ironChains someone was madeTo drag until love let them beUnclasped and left emptyIn the center of the ring.I love you in the waterWhere they pretended to wade,Singing that old blood-deep songThat dragged us to those banksAnd cast us in. In my particular case, God took the form of a luminous warm water. The best around, these days. Will it thunder up, the call of time? I love you, The angles of it scraping at Each throat, shouldering past The swirling dust motes In those beams of light That whatever we now knew We could let ourselves feel, knew To climb. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. And Tracy K. Smith doesn't. From Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2018). Used with the permission of Graywolf Press. They defy gravity to feel tugged back.The clatter, the mad slap of landing. . She didn’tKnow me, but I believed her,And a terrible new acheRolled over in my chest,Like in a room where the drapesHave been swept back.

I particularly enjoyed the erasure poems of black civil war soldiers seeking compensation. Smith lands on the power of art and its ability to pierce us ‘suddenly / By pillars of heavy light.’” ―Poets.org D’s first husband had been a chemist                                                                          When youworked at DuPont in this town you could haveeverything you wanted                                       DuPont paid for his education          secured him a mortgage           paid a generous salary even gave him a free supply of PFOA. Brief believing. Or lie quiet as bedrock beneath. It is just that, for me, it was experiencing the luminous warm water that I felt the most connection with the eternal. These are beautiful poems. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2018. The wide rows stretch on into death.Like famished birds, my hands strip each stalk of its stolen crop: our name.

Be the first to ask a question about Wade in the Water. Something went wrong. Clients called R to say they had received diagnoses of cancer         or that a family member had died, W who had cancer had died of a heart attack, They knew this stuff was harmful            and they put it in the water anyway. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Refresh and try again. Smith makes connections between the current state of American culture and its history.”―BuzzFeed“Deftly, Tracy K. Smith―the reigning poet laureate of the United States―illuminates America’s generational wounds.”―New York Magazine“Tracy K. Smith presents a clear-eyed portrait of the present, reconsiders the past and offers love as an ethical response to injustice. I know brilliance when I read it and this book is brilliant.”―Roxane Gay, Goodreads“Poetry requires acts of exquisite selection and distillation that Smith, poet laureate of the United States, performs with virtuosity and passion throughout her profoundly affecting fourth collection. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Viewing the myriad human faces with an indescribable, intimate, and profound love. Is blown from tree to tree, scattered by the breeze. . It speaks of the discrimination against black men, women and children during the civil war and the slavery period, among other things. The erasure poem, Declaration, is immense, as is 'I Will Tell You The Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It,' in which Smith uses sources from letters written by former slaves + veterans of the US Army. On either shore: mountains of men. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. . Our name our name our name our fraught, fraught name. Smith does captures so well the frustration, heartache, and also hope that is the struggle for equality in America, and her poems helped me to better see where progress has been made as well as where equality is still lacking. Most of these poems read like vertically-stacked prose. They drag it out and with nails in their feetCoax the night into being.

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