[...] the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even saying nothing. even saying nothing over and over absently to itself

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. ".