Rayons
Éditeurs
Tracy K. Smith
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Reconnue comme l'une des figures les plus talentueuses de la poésie américaine contemporaine, Tracy K. Smith interroge notre place dans le monde. Dans Cette couleur-là, première rétrospective de son oeuvre, elle s'aventure au plus profond du langage poétique : les mots se heurtent aux limites du désir ou du corps, explorent la mort et les limites du monde extérieur, nous plongent dans les méandres de l'Histoire et font résonner puissamment les questions de racisme et d'inégalités. Qu'elle scande l'élégie, la prière ou l'indignation, sa voix singulière insiste sur la place fondamentale de l'espoir.
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Tracy K. Smith's poetry seems to contain the whole universe. From the earliest work gathered here, we find the voices and experiences of women who have lived adventurously, who have travelled, desired, and found themselves drinking at bars with strangers in lands far from home; we find records of tenderness and of conflict, of the cruelty inflicted on humanity by humanity, and remarkable documentary work bearing witness to the victims of injustice, from a Native American boy separated from his family by the US Government to the girls kidnapped as 'wives' for rebel commanders in Uganda. This volume gathers the poet's selections from her four collections published since 2003, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Life on Mars , which expands the scope still further, finding in outer space - and the work of David Bowie - a rich vein of questions about life and death, power and paternalism, and race; and Wade in the Water , whose explorations of motherhood and the destruction of the environment intertwine with verbatim histories of slavery and the American Civil War. These are sensuous, light-filled poems, capable of finding the luminous, the transcendent and a principle of love in even the most difficult of subjects.
