A01=Carmen Gimenez Smith
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american politics
Author_Carmen Gimenez Smith
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bring down the little birds
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challenging
collection of poems
comfort zone
commentary
complacent
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free verse
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milk and faith
miss america
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personhood
poems
poetry
political commentary
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propaganda
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self
social commentary
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Product details
- ISBN 9781555978488
- Weight: 184g
- Dimensions: 179 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Gimenez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion - against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our complacency in an America that depends on it. This reckoning with self and nation demonstrates that who and where we are is as conditional as the fact of our compliance: “Miss America from sea to shining sea / the huddled masses have a question / there is one of you and all of us.” Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Giménez Smith as one of the most vital and vivacious poets of our time.
Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of six books, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, and Bring Down the Little Birds, winner of the American Book Award. She teaches at Virginia Tech University.
