Above Ground Poems
Above Ground Poems by Clint Smith is a poetry collection published by Little, Brown in 2023, featuring 107 pages in English. This work explores the emotional landscape of fatherhood, examining how the experience of becoming a parent reshapes one’s perception of the world. The poems delve into the influence of personal histories and societal structures, offering reflections on the joys and challenges of raising a family amid ongoing social and political upheaval.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of lyrical and narrative poetry that captures the duality of wonder and despair. Smith’s verses invite contemplation on intimate moments of joy alongside a collective sense of mourning, as he navigates the early years of his children’s lives and the broader world they inhabit. The collection addresses themes relevant to American and African American experiences, as well as social science and ethnic studies, making it a thoughtful addition to contemporary poetry.
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The New York Times bestselling poetry collection with “inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom” (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner 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.
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