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Above Ground
by Clint Smith
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New York, NY: Hachette | Little Brown (March 28, 2023)
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A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.
Clint Smith’s 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. Smith’s lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through 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
.
Clint Smith
is a staff writer at
The Atlantic
. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book,
How the Word Is Passed
:
A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
, which was a #1
New York Times
bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, and selected by the
New York Times
as one of the 10 best books of 2021. He is also the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His writing has been published in
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review
. and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.
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