Review of Tracy Smith’s collection of poetry, Wade in the Water in Harvard Review
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Tracy K. Smith’s fourth book of poetry ends with “An Old Story” of terrible times. Echoing Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Smith bemoans a ravaged land and rising hate—the “worst in us having taken over / And broken the rest utterly down.”
Read Henry’s review in the Harvard Review Online