{"title":"Cortney Lamar Charleston","description":"CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and the author of Telepathologies and Doppelgangbanger. He has been awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.","products":[{"product_id":"its-important-i-remember-poems-hardcover","title":"It's Important I Remember: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.\" In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to many, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378541428959,"sku":"9780810149649","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/J_txbYlXLV9780810149649.webp?v=1789258009"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cortney-lamar-charleston.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}