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Duende
The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States
Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.
Book Details
- Publisher: Graywolf Press
- Publish Date: May 29th, 2007
- Pages: 80
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.96in - 6.60in - 0.30in - 0.37lb
- EAN: 9781555974756
- Categories: • American - African American & Black
About the Author
TRACY K. SMITH is the author of The Body's Question. She received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 and a 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Princeton University.
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What people are saying
Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes
"The Eagle dreams light, Dreams molten heat, dreams words Like ‘bark,’ ‘fir’ and great mountains Appear under the shadows of great trees." From the Whiting library, “History” from DUENDE by Tracy K. Smith @GraywolfPress. Discover her work at https://t.co/JuP4s779I2 https://t.co/APPgvs4D0z
editor Andrew Cox (his tweets); co-editor Raphael Maurice. Web 2x/yr. Current issue: June 2023. Submissions are open Aug.-Sept. editors@ucityreview.com
Tracy K. Smith's poem "Duende" from the book Duende (@GraywolfPress 2007) https://t.co/sZeQh7lSwU "Each with a small reservoir / Of furious music heavy in the throat." #TheSealeyChallenge
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Run your hands down the sides of my legs, Knowing perfectly well what they know." – Tracy K. Smith, Duende
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What people are saying
Supporting writers with the Whiting Award, Creative Nonfiction Grant, and Literary Magazine Prizes
"The Eagle dreams light, Dreams molten heat, dreams words Like ‘bark,’ ‘fir’ and great mountains Appear under the shadows of great trees." From the Whiting library, “History” from DUENDE by Tracy K. Smith @GraywolfPress. Discover her work at https://t.co/JuP4s779I2 https://t.co/APPgvs4D0z
editor Andrew Cox (his tweets); co-editor Raphael Maurice. Web 2x/yr. Current issue: June 2023. Submissions are open Aug.-Sept. editors@ucityreview.com
Tracy K. Smith's poem "Duende" from the book Duende (@GraywolfPress 2007) https://t.co/sZeQh7lSwU "Each with a small reservoir / Of furious music heavy in the throat." #TheSealeyChallenge