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Counting Descent by Clint Smith (Hardcover)
Counting Descent by Clint Smith (Hardcover)
Winner of the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award and finalist at the 2017 NAACP Image Awards, Counting Descent asks us to question what we have inherited and choose what we carry forward.
We inherit stories—about ourselves, about each other, about who belongs and who does not. Clint Smith's poems hold those stories up to the light. Moving between personal memory and African-American history, he celebrates the beauty, joy, and resilience of Black boyhood while confronting the ways it is too often maligned and misrepresented.
they call me blue because
they don’t understand how the sky work
they call you black because
they don’t understand how god work
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Clint Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 Best Books of 2021. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Above Ground and Counting Descent.
