Counting Descent by Clint Smith (English) Paperback Book

Description: Counting Descent by Clint Smith Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Counting Descent is a meditation on lineage, history, and race that explores the cognitive dissonance of coming of age as black child in 21st century America. Publisher Description Clint Smiths debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition.Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. Praise"So many of these poems just blow me away. Incredibly beautiful and powerful." - Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim Crow"In Counting Descent, Clint Smith reflects "even the universe is telling us/ that we can never get too far// from the place that created us." Smith weaves histories, from collective to personal, to make indelible archetypes of those places that have created us all. These poems shimmer with revelatory intensity, approaching us from all sides to immerse us in the America that America so often forgets. The broad sweep of Smiths vision delivers a sudden awareness: In this poets hands, we sense, like Rilke, there is no place that does not see you." - Gregory Pardlo, Author of DigestCounting Descent is a tightly-woven collection of poems whose pages act like an invitation to New Orleans, to the spades table, to moms kitchen, to the kiss on a womans wrist, to conversations with hydrants and cicadas. The invitation is intimate and generous and also a challenge; are you up to asking what is blackness? What is black joy? How is black life loved and lived? To whom do wethis human We look to for answers? This invitation is not to a narrow street, or a shallow lake, but to a vast exploration of life. And death. In a voice that has the echoes of Baldwin, but that also declares itself a singular voice, Smith extends: "Maybe theres a place where everyone is both in love with and running from their own skin. Maybe that place is here." And youre invited. - Elizabeth Acevedo, Author of Beastgirl & Other Origin MythsAccoladesWinner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards 2017 One Book One New Orleans Book Selection Author Biography Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His essays, poems, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Details ISBN 1938912659 ISBN-13 9781938912658 Title Counting Descent Author Clint Smith Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 84 Publisher Write Bloody Publishing GE_Item_ID:100334805; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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