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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times (A Norton Short) by Tracy K. Smith Casey Elsass An Ezra Jack Keats AwardThe 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