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Recommended Reading: Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
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November 12th, 2012
by Christina Seymour
I heard once that the best works ask riveting questions; they don’t force answers or resolve. This can be said for Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars. In her poems, she trusts that if we cannot put words to our beliefs, then they will emerge naturally as subtext if we investigate the subject matter of our lives—our choices of where to be, what to listen to, and why. Smith takes things that haunt her like David Bowie, her father’s death, dark matter, and hate crimes and explores them until what results is a nebulous network of human thought, inconsistent and fallible as it is—a collection of what festers, what shimmers, what grows, what happens beside us, invisibly, in that space we can’t catch but know is there.
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