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Counting Descent by Clint Smith
5.0
If you’re not already following @allisonreadsdc then you are missing out on some fabulous recommendations that will challenge you to think critically and embrace diversity.
Counting Descent by Clint Smith is a modern poetry collection that spans the author’s childhood and experience growing up in New Orleans, to his time as an adult at Harvard University. It also includes social and historical commentary, and I was particularly moved by For Charles, a poem dedicated to Charles Deslondes who in 1811 led the largest slave revolt in American history.
This was highly readable, engaging and incredibly powerful. Some of my favorites in the collection included Counterfactual (in which he recounts playing with waterguns in the street as a child with white friends, and his father’s subsequent ‘reprimand’ of this), Ode to The Only Black Kid in Class (which describes the weight of having to be a voice for a group when you’re the only member present) and Dissection (recounting his grandfather hearing the news of JFK’s assassination).
This was incredible, unputdownable, and I can’t wait to read more by Clint Smith! Thanks for the fantastic recommendation, Allison! 😊
Counting Descent by Clint Smith is a modern poetry collection that spans the author’s childhood and experience growing up in New Orleans, to his time as an adult at Harvard University. It also includes social and historical commentary, and I was particularly moved by For Charles, a poem dedicated to Charles Deslondes who in 1811 led the largest slave revolt in American history.
This was highly readable, engaging and incredibly powerful. Some of my favorites in the collection included Counterfactual (in which he recounts playing with waterguns in the street as a child with white friends, and his father’s subsequent ‘reprimand’ of this), Ode to The Only Black Kid in Class (which describes the weight of having to be a voice for a group when you’re the only member present) and Dissection (recounting his grandfather hearing the news of JFK’s assassination).
This was incredible, unputdownable, and I can’t wait to read more by Clint Smith! Thanks for the fantastic recommendation, Allison! 😊