April 16, 2012—Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that
Life
on Mars by Tracy K. Smith has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The
winners were announced today by the Pulitzer Prize Board and Columbia
University, and the prizes will be presented to the winners at a luncheon on
May 21st at Columbia University.
Of her win, Tracy K. Smith said, “This news is particularly elating, because I think of the book as a tribute to my father, who passed away in 2008.”
“This is very well deserved,” said Fiona McCrae, director and publisher at Graywolf Press. “Tracy K.
Smith is a poet of great poise and grace that has grown from book to book. All
of us at Graywolf are absolutely delighted about this recognition."
By Alyson Hagy "A wonderful story collection, so brilliantly vivid, it is like a trip
to this pocket of the world so steeped in history and folklore. You can
hear the surf and smell the cut bait. And you can enter the lives of a
host of colorful characters, each expressing his or her own kind of
longing as well as a connection to this lush place."—Jill McCorkle
“‘Hopper and I form one single person,’ says the Catalan poet
Ernest Farrés of his poems on Edward Hopper’s paintings. Joining this company
of two, Lawrence Venuti carries Hopper home by making him stranger. The idiom
Venuti has invented is at once American and otherworldly, doubled, like the
poems he translates, like the paintings Farrés translated into poems. Not just
a brilliant sequence of poems, Edward
Hopper is a three-part invention.”
By Jane Kenyon "Jane Kenyon is our Akhmatova. She will be read and remembered here as
Akhmatova is read and remembered over there. For this we give no thanks
because the gift is beyond thanks. But how deeply we are
indebted!" —Hayden Carruth
By Mary Jo Bang “This book bridges a gap between an experimental
tradition in American poetry and an older high lyric tradition. This is some of
Bang’s best writing, and one of the most exciting books of the year.”
“Pay attention to
[Mary Jane] Nealon—she’s a keeper. . . . I desperately wish skilled poets
like Nealon wrote at least half of all memoirs. This is to be savored. There are mediations on life, death,
leaving, returning, growing, healing; I will reread it.”—Library Journal,
starred review
April 16, 2012—Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that
Life
on Mars by Tracy K. Smith has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The
winners were announced today by the Pulitzer Prize Board and Columbia
University, and the prizes will be presented to the winners at a luncheon on
May 21st at Columbia University.
