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Over Booked Book Club - Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K. Smith (20s & 30s)

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Your 20s & 30s are perfect for starting new activities and trying new books! Join us at the 20s & 30s book club and find something new to read!

This month we will be celebrating National Poetry Month! The book we've chosen is Life on Mars: Poems by Tracy K Smith. Half poetry, half anthology, and half dystopian, Smith explores a strange sci-fi world and the characters living in it.

"With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like “love” and “illness” now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope."

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