Clint Smith
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"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
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Write Bloody Publishing
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From the author of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America * Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award * Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards * "One Book One New Orleans" 2017 Book Selection * Published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, New Republic, Boston Review, The Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Academy of American Poets "So
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Fitchburg National Poetry Month
Jones Library's Black Lives Matter Book List
WILBRAHAM National Poetry Month
Jones Library's Black Lives Matter Book List
WILBRAHAM National Poetry Month
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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...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks--those that are honest about the past and those that are not--that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history and memory. It is the story of the Monticello plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty...
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Hearst Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Learn all there is to know about creating a glorious home. Veranda decorating takes you on an A-Z journey through the essentials of decorating, from 'Antiques' and 'Art' to Zoning. Dozens of spectacular photographs showcase sophisticated furnishings and design aesthetics, and this book--authored by Veranda Senior Editor Mario López-Cordero with a foreword by Clinton Smith, the magazine's Editor in Chief--perfectly juxtaposes practical decorating...