Ordinary Light: A Memoir

Smith, Tracy K.

ISBN 10: 0345804074 / ISBN 13: 9780345804075

Published by Vintage, 2016

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Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: TRACY K. SMITH is the United States Poet Laureate. She is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry, including Wade in the Water and Life on Mars, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and a New Yorker, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. A professor of creative writing at Princeton University, she lives in Princeton with her family.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ordinary Light: A Memoir
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good