Ordinary Light: A Memoir Fashion Mask and in our own understanding

and in our own understanding of identity

55" H x 10

using tricks from opera singers and actors

a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp

Ordinary Light: A Memoir Fashion Mask and in our own understandingBy Tracy K. Smith NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST This dazzling memoir from the former U. S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. "Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement. Evocative luminous." The Washington Post In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Tracy K. Smith tells