![]() “I always felt there was this kernel of connectedness that he and I shared,” she says, “even though we veered in very separate directions.” Other poems in the collection consider his death, as well as black holes, metaphysics and the afterlife. When he died in 2008, Smith tells Kurt Andersen, she looked at the Hubble’s images of deep space with new curiosity. Smith’s interest in space also stems from her father, who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. In three books of poetry and a memoir, Smith explores how loss. ![]() “I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that’s as out there as alien life," she said. Smiths 2011 collection, Life on Mars.These boldly roving questions characterize Smiths work. He seemed to embody “the imagination as something that is capable of creating a whole new world and a whole new sense of self.” And the view back down to earth was equally captivating. Smith says she became “kind of obsessed” with Bowie’s extraterrestrial alter ego Ziggy Stardust in her 30s. ![]() Smith’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection “Life on Mars” contains many references to the man she salutes as the “Pope of Pop,” David Bowie. ![]()
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