With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation. 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. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary. 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. Praise A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then. Smith examines the discoveries, failures, and oddities of humans. 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. Smith (Author) 513 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 12.79 Other new and used from 3.94 Audio CD 16.24 2 New from 16. 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.

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