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The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States

* Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize *

You are pure appetite. I am pure
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
--from Self-Portrait as the Letter Y

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.

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      Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/1/2003
      ISBN13: 9781555973919, 978-1555973919
      ISBN10: 1555973914

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States

      * Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize *

      You are pure appetite. I am pure
      Appetite. You are a phantom
      In that far-off city where daylight
      Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
      --from Self-Portrait as the Letter Y

      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.

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