Counting Descent Smith Clint Paperback
From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across AmericaWinner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image…
Specifikacia Counting Descent Smith Clint Paperback
From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across AmericaWinner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image AwardsOne Book One New Orleans 2017 Book SelectionPublished in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Academy of American PoetsSo many of these poems just blow me away. Incredibly beautiful and powerful. -- Michelle Alexander, Author of The New Jim CrowCounting Descent is a tightly-woven collection of poems whose pages act like an invitation. 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