Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) Holiday Seasonal Drawn to the disappearances by

Drawn to the disappearances by forces she can’t explain

And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees

They cut to the quick

pioneering Army Air Force bomber pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets II

By the time he was seventeen

Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) Holiday Seasonal Drawn to the disappearances byThe Pulitzer Prizewinning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world. Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as inaccessible, irrelevant, or intimidating. She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to love, dream, question, and engage