Galaxy an organism that changes even as iĮxamine it fact and fantasy never twice the It is a nation earthly entity an iota in our In Hayden’s poem “,” an alien makes a study of the Earth, a “nation in progress” that is still reckoning “with the implications of its history,” Smith wrote.Īmerica as much a problem in metaphysics as Poetry is an invitation to submit to another person’s reality, and discover how it enriches your own.Ĭulled from the works of living American poets, Smith chose the pieces in this collection to “collapse the distance” between readers and the varied realities of their fellow citizens across the nation.Īccording to Smith’s introduction, the book takes its name from the work of the first African-American Poet Laureate Robert Hayden.
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