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The Body's Question

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The Body's Question

By: Tracy K. Smith
Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith
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The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet, selected by Kevin Young.

Confronting loss, historical intersections with race and family, and the threshold between childhood and adulthood, Smith gathers courage and direction from the many disparate selves encountered in these poems, until, as she writes, "I was anyone I wanted to be."

©2003 Tracy K. Smith; Introduction copyright 2003 by Kevin Young (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
African American Poetry United States World Literature
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