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In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the Detroiters in this evocative anthology.

In the glamorous world of L.A.’s elite, love stories rarely happen without strings attached. I envisioned my own fairy tale love story to be full of starry-eyed romance. But what I got instead? A cautionary tale. Landing Apollo DuPont as a client? A career highlight. But becoming his fiancée overnight? That was the beginning of a challenge I didn’t see coming… until I was in too deep.

Sara Sue is bored with her suburban life, but then late one night, she witnesses something sinister in the park near her home and things get interesting. The next day, Sara Sue makes a gruesome discovery in the shadows of the playground. Compelled to investigate, she soon realizes all is not what it seems in her sleepy neighborhood. Dark secrets lie just beneath the surface. Someone close to her is hiding the truth.

Set in the Five Points neighborhood of New York City, in the years 1857-1863, when America's attitudes toward people of color and slavery shifted—painfully, transformationally—to the point where a war that began to restore the union becomes one that owes much to Black fighting regiments, and common cause grows for the abolition of slavery. We experience the daily life of Five Points through the eyes of Theo, aged seven at the start of the book and 13 at its close. Theo is half Black and half Irish, an orphan living between the homes of her Black and Irish grandparents.