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"I feel ashamed, finally,/ Of our magnificent paved roads,/ Our bridges slung with steel…/ Everything enhanced, rehearsed," writes Pulitzer Prize winner Smith (Life on Mars), our current poet laureate, reminding us that the comfortable but artificial world we've constructed only distracts us from the real: "the cold, the pitiless, the bleak." Throughout her fourth collection, Smith centers attention on the troubled infrastructure of social, politi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More