With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. Were pulled between poems of dark, distant futures and the. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. In Life on Mars she celebrates our confusing, question-riddled relationship with the universe. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. Smith (Author, Narrator), HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books (Publisher) 407 ratings Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 12.79 87 Used from 3.30 28 New from 9.99 Audio CD 18.99 1 New from 18. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Life on Mars: Poems Audible Audiobook Unabridged Tracy K. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
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