The Body's Question: Poems

Written by Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by Tracy K. Smith

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young. Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Aug 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781681689050

Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith, guest editor, served as United States Poet Laureate from 2017–2019 and is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including, most recently, Wade in the Water and Life on Mars, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2015. Educated at Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford, she is the Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University.

Reviews for The Body's Question

[viviennestrauss · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I don't typically listen to poetry books but that was my only option on this one, I'm going through another insomnia phase and have listened to it four times so far.