Tracy K. Smith Quotes
History is a heavy thing everywhere.
Smith, Tracy K. Interview. The Paris Review, 2018.
He was one of the only people outside of the Trump Campaign who had predicted a Trump victory. His judgment was based in a system he developed by using historical data since 1865 on the party in power at the time of the election. He ignores all polls, pundits, scandals and campaign factors.
Like the Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, he produced gigantic murals with historical and social themes. He actually included lynchings and KKK meetings and Mormon persecution in his works which offended many Missouri politicians, but then he was probably in a better position to do so than any artist in Missouri.
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
