No Bedtime Stories of Soil - Couverture souple

Smith, Landon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1955953023 ISBN 13 : 9781955953023

Editeur : Black Freighter Press, 2022

Synopsis

In his debut, No Bedtime Stories of Soil, Landon Smith brings to the page what

The Last Poets delivered to the stage. He writes with the prescience of Amiri

Baraka as he explores polyrhythmic political themes with messages in his

poetry akin to essays by James Baldwin, searing truths that force America to

take a long hard look at herself. A reckoning. A eulogy. The last sermon on a

crumbling mount. Smith's voice is the fire we need this time. In "Ode to Kalief ",

he writes "I hear you in the silence sometimes/The empty space between what

your life should have been and what it became in the hollow space you were

left to erode," signaling his collective hearing of the violent silencing of Black

atrocities in histories past, present and approaching. Smith's voice is the clarion

call for these shifted and shifting times-a beacon for what needs our most

urgent attention. This book is the one we need right now. Primed for the kairos

moment. The manual for next.

-adrienne danyelle oliver, author, the body has memories and collective madness

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Landon Smith (he/him) is a Bay Area professor, a poet, a painter, half Mende and half Balanta & Fulani, that feeling of falling that wakes you up in a dream, the amethyst stone on your desk, Angela Davis' afro, Fanon's pocket notebook, the 7-10 bowling split, your favorite pillow. Despite his institutional degrees, he really became a poet through the East Side Arts Alliance in Oakland. Landon thanks his older sister Alia for buying him his first journal, starting his ever-evolving relationship with words. You can often find him processing the world through poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Black Freighter Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1955953023
• ISBN 13: 9781955953023
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible