A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York
Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning
author of 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.