So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Graywolf Press. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012 for Life on Mars.  
Life on Mars.

Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. About this collection Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ".