Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Affiliation Literary Award
Finalist, 2017 NAACP Picture Awards
‘One E book One New Orleans’ 2017 E book Choice
Printed in The New Yorker, The New York Occasions Journal, Poetry Journal, The Paris Evaluate, New Republic, Boston Evaluate, The Guardian, The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets
“So many of those poems simply blow me away. Extremely lovely and highly effective.” ―Michelle Alexander, Writer of The New Jim Crow
“Counting Descent is a tightly-woven assortment of poems whose pages act like an invite. The invitation is intimate and beneficiant and likewise a problem; are you as much as asking what’s blackness? What’s black pleasure? How is black life liked and lived? To whom do we glance to for solutions? This invitation is to not a slim road, or a shallow lake, however to an enormous exploration of life. And also you’re invited. —Elizabeth Acevedo, Writer of Beastgirl & Different Origin Myths
“These poems shimmer with revelatory depth, approaching us from all sides to immerse us within the America that America so usually forgets.”―Gregory Pardlo
Counting Descent is greater than sensible. Greater than lyrical. Greater than bluesy. Greater than brave. It’s terrifying in its capability to directly not disguise and present readers why it desires to cover so badly. These poems mend, meld and picture with weighted particulars, pauses, idiosyncrasies and phrase patterns I’ve by no means seen earlier than. —Kiese Laymon, Writer of Lengthy Division
Clint Smith’s debut poetry assortment, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and custom.
“Are you aware what it means on your existence to be outlined by another person’s intentions?”
Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that outcomes from belonging to a neighborhood that unapologetically celebrates black humanity whereas residing in a world that always renders blackness a caricature of worry. His poems transfer fluidly throughout private and political histories, all of the whereas reflecting on the social development of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a robust journey forcing us to replicate on all that we study rising up, and all that we search to unlearn shifting ahead.
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ASIN : 1938912659
Writer : Write Bloody Publishing
Publication date : September 20, 2016
Version : First Version
Language : English
Print size : 84 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781938912658
ISBN-13 : 978-1938912658
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 6 x 0.21 x 9 inches
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