Such Color MIDDLE GRADE and Black beauty

and Black beauty

Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries

Barack Obama delivers a tender

written with the awareness of the experiences and challenges that hinder anyone who exists beyond the structure of traditional white male power--women

from going to the park to philosophizing to playing ball

Such Color MIDDLE GRADE and Black beautyCelebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first career spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smiths four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep