The title poem, which includes everything from 'dark matter' and 'a father./ who kept his daughter/ Locked in a cell for decades' to Abu Ghraib is proof that life is far stranger and more haunting than fiction." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) " blends pop culture, history, elegy, anecdote, and sociopolitical commentary to illustrate the weirdness of contemporary living.
Her Martian metaphor firmly in place, she reveals unknowable terrains: birth and death and love." - Dana Jennings, The New York Times Smith shows us that she can play the minor keys, too. But what's most satisfying about is that after the grand space opera of Part 1, with its giddy name checks of 2001 and David Bowie, Ms. "The book's strange and beautiful first section pulses with America's adolescent crush on the impossible, on what waits beyond the edge of the universe. " is by turns intimate, even confessional, regarding private life in light of its potential extermination, and resoundingly political, warning of a future that 'isn't what it used to be, ' the refuse of a party piled with 'postcards / And panties, bottles with lipstick on the rim.' " - Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." - Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book Review It's not easy to be so convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs. "In Life on Mars, Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition.
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