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Clint Smith is a gift. One of favourite extracts below from « Ode to 9th & O NW »
It’s something about how you sit
on the corner
at the intersection
of where I learned to tell someone
they made me feel
like everything & nothing
How you made growing up existential
How one can be lulled into nostalgia
by the clamor of an audacious love.
It’s something about how you sit
on the corner
at the intersection
of where I learned to tell someone
they made me feel
like everything & nothing
How you made growing up existential
How one can be lulled into nostalgia
by the clamor of an audacious love.
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
This is a beautiful collection of poems that needs to be savored, not rushed through. There is a recurring set of "what the ________ said to the black boy" including what the cicada said, what the window said, and what the cathedral said that particularly caught my attention. There is a variety of styles but always an incredibly evocative use of language. The title poem, counting descent, is also, like the others, extremely thought-provoking giving some of the numbers associated with being Black. The one about the ironies associated with raising your arms on a playground brought tears to my eyes.
I wish I could have given this a million stars.
https://maybesbooks.blogspot.com/2019/07/counting-descent-by-clint-smith.html
https://maybesbooks.blogspot.com/2019/07/counting-descent-by-clint-smith.html
emotional
hopeful
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Beautiful, powerful, moving, thought-provoking, perspective-shifting - exactly what I love when I sit down to read some poetry. Thank you Clint Smith. P.S. if you haven't listened to him perform his own poetry, I recommend you search some up right now. AMAZING!!!
inspiring
reflective
Clint Smith... man oh man. This book is exactly the kind of poetry that breaks your heart and puts it back together again in the same poem. It was such a roller coaster of the most beautiful images and the most devastating realities. I will never know what it’s like to be a black man in America, but Smith’s poems have taught me many things & will stay with me. Plus, the romance poems!