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Above ground : poems
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- ISBN: 0316543039
- ISBN: 9780316543033
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Physical Description:
xiv, 107 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023.
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| Subject: | American poetry 21st century Poetry, Modern 21st century Parent and child Poetry |
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- Baker & Taylor
"The number one New York Times bestselling author, intellectual, and spoken word poet Clint Smith gives his devoted readers a collection of poetry straight from the heart. It is a meditation on the country he studies through the lens of all he has learned from fatherhood. The poems are manifestations of Smith's wisdom and latest observations, starting with the precarious birth of his son, to the current political and social state of the country, to childhood memories, and back again. Smith traverses the periods of his life from four different cities and the process pf realizing what it means to build a life that orbits around his family. Amid all of it, he has watched as the country has been forced to confront the ugliest manifestations of itself, and has thought about what it means to raise children amid the backdrop of political tumult. Smith is a poet who uses the form to interrogate his own autobiography and the state of the country today, affording those who prefer reading poetry a shot of news, andthose who normally seek out nonfiction, some lyrical beauty"-- - Grand Central Pub
A Best Book of the Year 2023:
The New York Times bestselling poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner How the Word Is Passed.
TIME
NPRâs Best Books
New York Public Library
Electric Lit
The Root
NBC Today
Mother Jones
Clint Smithâs vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smithâs lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his childrenâs lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing upâthrough the changing world of which we are all a part.
Above Ground is a breathtaking collection that follows Smith's first award-winning book of poetry, Counting Descent.