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Ordinary Light by Laureate Tracy K. Smith

In US poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's memoir, Ordinary Light, she tells her own remarkable story of coming of age as a young artist in Black America after having suffered an insurmountable loss: the life of her mother.

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