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."
“Each of the four sections of this book is punctuated by Burt’s
brilliant version of a poem by Callimachus. Burt thereby casts an eerie
light on the American life that fills the rest of his book, as the
poems move from the endless deferral of adolescence (‘we will know who
we are once we have won’) to the plenitude and deprivations that
sustain adulthood. This is a masterly book by one of the most gifted
poets of his generation.” —Frank Bidart
By Fanny Howe "Fanny Howe is a sly, wicked poet, always shifting between the social,
the political, as well as the linguistic and literary concerns of an
artist always writing from the cutting edge. One Crossed Out is a thrilling book of poetry by a poet in total control of her craft and her
voice." —Quincy Troupe
By Tiphanie Yanique “I reached the end of How to Escape from a Leper Colony with the exhilarating sense that
I had been on the best kind of journey—not,
finally, to the Virgin Islands nor Trinidad nor Houston nor London, but to the imagination of a wonderfully
talented young writer who has many more stories to tell.”
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.
