![]() ![]() ![]() That’s when I need to feel fearless and un-self-conscious. Smith: The most intensely personal part of the process for me comes while I’m writing a poem. Poems don’t often get the kind of national media attention that’s focused on Pulitzer Prize-winning collections what went through your mind when you realized such intensely personal work was being discussed by the masses? ![]() Dedicated to the memory of Smith’s late father, Life On Mars tackles matters of life and death on a grand scale and reflects upon one human being’s place in so massive a universe.Ĭhapter 16: Life On Mars is in many ways a very personal reflection on the loss of your father. Smith was writing the poems that would eventually become her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Life On Mars, the answers, or at least some kind of fulfillment, could be found in the contemplation itself. To contemplate the afterlife, the vastness of the universe, and one’s place in the world might seem like a pointless exercise: given the limited breadth of human understanding, what can we really know of such matters? When Tracy K. ![]()
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