Tracy K. Smith and Dean Young

Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012. Here she “infuses her masterful gifts with wondrous intensity and tenderness,” wrote Terrance Hayes. “This book and this poet are vital and incomparable.” Dean Young’s new book is Bender: New & Selected Poems. His poetry reads “like a long, breathless thank-you for life’s seemingly random jumble of beauty, strangeness, tenderness and joy,” wrote the Los Angeles Times.