With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like love and illness now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. Smiths Life on Mars is, to some degree, sizing her up, passing judgment, taking an explicit or silent stance as to her worthiness. and, most recently, Life on Mars, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps. to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. It’s not easy to be so convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs, and the early successes of this collection far outweigh its later missteps. Smiths best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe.
With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In Life on Mars, Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
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