Counting Descent - Brossura

Smith, Clint

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1938912659 ISBN 13: 9781938912658

Casa editrice: Write Bloody Pub, 2016

Riassunto

Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness.

Clint Smith's 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.

- Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award

- Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards

- 2017 'One Book One New Orleans' Book Selection

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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where teachers trained me
to wield language as a
tool & fist & weapon & warning
to those who would rather
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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Write Bloody Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1938912659
• ISBN 13: 9781938912658
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 74
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile