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A review by morgob
Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith
5.0
I'm on a poetry kick and I love it! This collection was very good. I loved the different styles of poems she used, and the topics were wonderful. I have also discovered, through comparing which poems were my favorite in this one and in Native Guard, that I have a type of poetry that I prefer. My favorite type of poetry would be the kind that references history and historical events. Particularly, historical events that are not very well-known, to bring them to light and tell the previously unknown story. This author in particular references history and David Bowie, who isn't quite history but I love him anyway. So, having said that, I will list my favorite poems:
-"The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", I love this one because of the word choice and the way it sounds,
-"They May Love All that He Has Chosen and Hate All that He Has Rejected", I loved this one because of the stories of the dead and having us look at the dead's killers, and I especially love the postcards,
-"Everything that Ever Was", also love this for the wording
-"The Museum of Obsolescence", the wording is magical but also the premise and the ideas behind it are very interesting
-"Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?", the David Bowie references are wonderful
-"Life on Mars", love all of the history, the mentions of the atomic bomb and that destruction, and the ideas of humanity and loneliness, also the Americans bit about Iraq got my blood boiling, especially after reading the endnotes
-"My God, It's Full of Stars", love the Bowie and 2001 references, it is kind of a scary poem because space is scary
-"Cathedral Kitsch", love the wording and discussion of god and religion, also interesting ideas about science and religion combined
-"The Largeness We Can't See", the wording is nice, but so are the ideas behind them, and that going into the unknown kind of deal.
-"The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", I love this one because of the word choice and the way it sounds,
-"They May Love All that He Has Chosen and Hate All that He Has Rejected", I loved this one because of the stories of the dead and having us look at the dead's killers, and I especially love the postcards,
-"Everything that Ever Was", also love this for the wording
-"The Museum of Obsolescence", the wording is magical but also the premise and the ideas behind it are very interesting
-"Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?", the David Bowie references are wonderful
-"Life on Mars", love all of the history, the mentions of the atomic bomb and that destruction, and the ideas of humanity and loneliness, also the Americans bit about Iraq got my blood boiling, especially after reading the endnotes
-"My God, It's Full of Stars", love the Bowie and 2001 references, it is kind of a scary poem because space is scary
-"Cathedral Kitsch", love the wording and discussion of god and religion, also interesting ideas about science and religion combined
-"The Largeness We Can't See", the wording is nice, but so are the ideas behind them, and that going into the unknown kind of deal.