Ordinary Light: A MemoirAuthor Contributor(s): Smith, Tracy K. Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 8 2016 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST This dazzling memoir from the former U. S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America. "Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement. Evocative luminous."