Video Series: The Early Life of Tracy. K Smith
Watch this video to learn more about the early life of Tracy K. Smith!
Tracer Workshop: Smith and Pop Culture
Welcome to the second Tracer Workshop! In these workshops, you will learn about specific techniques, stylistic choices, poetic decisions, etc. that Tracy K. Smith frequently uses and makes throughout her several books of poetry. I have “traced” such aspects of Smith's work across all of the collections that I have read thus far and will be sharing my findings, observations, and commentary with you via these workshops. This second workshop deals with the ways in which Smith uses pop culture references across several of her poems. This is most prominently demonstrated in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars . In my opinion, Smith's purpose in employing these sort of simple, well-known references in otherwise complicated pieces of poetry filled with ambiguity, complicated metaphors, distinct images, and difficult subject matters is to reach each of her readers. Given that her poems are so complexly layered and often merit a second, third, or even a fourth read to tr...
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