Life on Mars

This collection of poetry explores the wonder of existence in every form from the intangible, to the cosmic, to the infinitesimal.

I love Smith's velvety voice when she reads poetry, which I knew from her podcast where she reads other people's poems. I liked that her own work was so accessible, that I could understand what she was trying to say and the beautiful turns of phrase. Unfortunately, since I listened to the audio (mostly while I was driving), I couldn't pause to linger over the lines I loved, and so they slipped away even though I was listening at normal speed. I'm going to want to revisit this in print, because even though I enjoyed hearing how she intended these poems to be read, I don't feel like I got as much out of this as I wanted to. This was a short listen - less than an hour and a half - but when I finished I felt like I needed to listen to it a second time to really get it, so I'm not going to give it a rating this time around.

Very enjoyable. Hits you in the core, says so much about so many things, yet always comes back to the central theme.