
The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs...


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,...