Description
This powerful debut poetry collection follows a young Black speaker coming of age amid the intertwined legacies of family, history, and race. Moving between intimate love poems, elegies, and politically charged reflections, the poems examine how Black identity is shaped by both cultural inheritance and the forces that distort it. With a voice that is tender, incisive, and unflinching, the collection explores Black joy, grief, belonging, masculinity, and the process of unlearning what society teaches. Together, these tightly woven poems invite readers to question how lived experience is constructed—and how Black life is loved, remembered, and imagined.
Available Editions
paperback
Write Bloody Publishing
Published Jan 1, 2016
74 pages
ISBN: 9781938912658
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Counting Descent by Clint Smith.