Andrew ShieldsMay 2

All that repeats and repeats

God of Song
Tracy K. Smith

#Poetry #TracyKSmith #GodOfSong #Son #Music #Sound #Sight

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1786552/god-of-song

God of Song

Beads of breath rising from the body of a bee. I’ve watched him birth a tune, held in that rite like a moth in porchlight. All that repeats— though it…

The Poetry Foundation
The Marginalian [Unofficial]Jan 22

A Spell Against Fear: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry and The Art of Productive Impatience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/22/tracy-k-smith-fear-less/

Andrew ShieldsJun 17, 2024

Past history and argument

Vision
Tracy K. Smith

#Poetry #TracyKSmith #Vision #TheNewYorker #Literature #Enslavement #Pilgrims #Custer #Mounties

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/vision-tracy-k-smith-poem

“Vision,” by Tracy K. Smith

Poetry by Tracy K. Smith: “All that had been severed / was married back to itself.”

The New Yorker
Andrew ShieldsJan 8, 2023

Bowie is among us.

Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?
Tracy K. Smith
#Poetry #TracyKSmith #DavidBowie
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55520/dont-you-wonder-sometimes

Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? by Tracy K. Smith | Poetry Foundation

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Poetry Foundation
Andrew ShieldsDec 29, 2022
Eight great twenty-first-century poems from the United States alone. #111Words #Poetry #NatalieDiaz #MartínEspada #IlyaKaminsky #DanezSmith #MaggieSmith #TracyKSmith #AEStallings #CDaleYoung https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2022/12/eight-great-twenty-first-century-poems.html
Eight great twenty-first-century poems from the United States alone

Poetry did not " die 100 years ago ", when T. S. Eliot supposedly "killed" it with "The Waste Land". On tbe contrary, contemporary Anglophon...