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• Tracy K. Smith:

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• Tracy K. Smith:

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• Tracy K. Smith:

  Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife

• Tracy K. Smith:

  For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I t

• Tracy K. Smith:

  I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and s

• Tracy K. Smith:

  I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places w

• Tracy K. Smith:

  I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in