![]() ![]() It’s a place where the babes in the woods are awakened violently ( … “or close my eyes/And let it slam me in the face”) to face cruelty and sin. In the poem, the Garden is an upscale supermarket but it is also an obvious stand-in for the biblical/archetypal place where all our troubles started. Smith begins by establishing the cartography of our existence not on earth but at the site of departure, or for some, expulsion – the Garden of Eden. In this collection, she floats back only to find that the troubles and trespass she has left behind remain waiting for her reckoning. ![]() In Life on Mars, Smith travels away from earth and its troubles to mourn, meditate and maybe to reconcile the loss of anchor. Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and it follows her 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning Life on Mars. ![]()
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