The Body's Question: Poems

by Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young

Book Overview

The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States

* Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize *

You are pure appetite. I am pure
Appetite. You are a phantom
In that far-off city where daylight
Climbs cathedral walls, stone by stolen stone.
--from "Self-Portrait as the Letter Y"

The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith received the 2002 Cave Canem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555973914
• ISBN13: 9781555973919
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"