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By: Clint Smith
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Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the listener on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward.

©2016 Write Bloody Publishing (P)2019 Write Bloody Publishing African American Poetry

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The narration is everything~it draws you in, up close and often leaves you suspended as a way to allow you to find your own landing.💝✍🏽

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What an amazing collection of poems reflesxting on Blackness and the Black experience written in lyrical verses. Highly recommend.

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I’m not a poetry person at all. Clint Smith changed my mind with the way he tells his as well as African Americans stories eloquently with a rawness that’s can be denied.

Please Read!! You won’t be disappointed!

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Humor, sorrow and deep meaning and insight. The poetry is so powerful. A regular listen for me!!

Powerful

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To feel these words doesn’t require a deep appreciation for poetry so much as a minuscule appreciation for humanity.

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His work is beautiful and poignant and raw. And most of all, his work is so necessary.

Clint Smith’s work needs to be on your bookshelves… virtual or physical

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I love Clint Smith's poems and his ability to embody them with himself. I believe him. and he takes me home.

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Really enjoyed this reading of Black elegies and praise songs by one of our best writers and thinkers.

Fabulous readings of these taut elegies and songs!

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One of those magnificent poets that makes struggle and life so simple yet so complex and beautiful.

Amazing! A must read

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