Ordinary Light: A Memoir Fashion Mask first published in 1942 and

first published in 1942 and never out of print

Ruth eventually found work as a law clerk

55" H x 10

using tricks from opera singers and actors

Ordinary Light: A Memoir Fashion Mask first published in 1942 andBy Tracy K. Smith 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." The Washington Post In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Tracy K. Smith tells