
Be Recorder
Poems
Carmen Gimenez Smith(Author)
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Published on 1. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-55597-848-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 Gimenez Smith as one of the most vital and vivacious poets of our time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55597-848-8 (9781555978488)
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Carmen Gimenez 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.