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Duende

by Tracy K Smith
Duende

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Every poem is the story of itself.

Pure conflict. Its own undoing.

Breeze of dreams, then certain death.

                      --from "History"

Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.

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Praise for The Body's Question:

"The most persuasively haunted poems here are those where [Smith] casts herself not simply as a dutiful curator of personal history but a canny medium of fellow feeling and the stirrings of the collective unconscious . . . [And] it's this charged air of rapt apprehension that gives her spare, fluid lines their coolly incantatory tenor as she warms to the task of channeling disquieting visions and fugitive voices." --The New York Times Book Review

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The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States

Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico Garcia Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.


About the Author

TRACY K. SMITH is the author of The Body's Question. She received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 and a 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

I.History

Flores Woman

The Searchers

SeptemberLetter to a Photojournalist Going-In

 

II.

El Mar AstralMinister of Saudade

I Don't Miss It

Igor at Gunpoint

Diego, 

Western Fragment 

After Persephone

To Burn with a Low Blue Flame

One Man at a Time

Poem in Which Nobody Says, "I Told You So" 

Now That the Weather Has Turned

Duende

 

III.

Slow Burn

Interrogative 

When Zappa Crashes My Family Reunion

Theft

"I Killed You Because You Didn't Go to School and Had No Future"

"Into the Moonless Light"

The Opposite of War

Costa Chica

In Brazil 

Vaya, Camarón

Nocture, Andalusian Dog 

The Nobodies

 

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Tracy K. Smith on PowellsBooks.Blog

IMG: Tracy K. Smith Every book Tracy K. Smith has published has won an award or received an honor. Her first book of poetry, The Body's Question, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize; her second, Duende, won the James Laughlin Award; and her third, Life on Mars, upped the ante and won the Pulitzer. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a National Book Award finalist...

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ISBN:
9781555974756
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/29/2007
Publisher:
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
Pages:
87
Height:
.30IN
Width:
6.60IN
Thickness:
.25
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2007
UPC Code:
2801555974758
Author:
Tracy K. Smith
Author:
Tracy K Smith
Subject:
American poetry
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z

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