Eternity

<p><b>'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' </b><i><b>The New York Times</b><br><br></i>US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire remarkable career. From the private experience of desire to the devastations of political strife these poems enlarge our vocabulary for what it means to live struggle grieve and love.<br><br>'Smith's poetry is an awakening itself' <i>Vogue</i><br><br>'Deftly Tracy K. Smith the reigning poet laureate of the United States illuminates America's generational wounds' <i>New York Magazine</i><br><br>'Smith is a storyteller who loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover to family and to history' Hilton Als <i>New Yorker</i></p>