Dark Testament: Blackout Poems

Dark Testament: Blackout Poems - Hardcover

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Dark Testament: Blackout Poems - Hardcover

Dark Testament: Blackout Poems - Hardcover

by Crystal Simone Smith
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by Crystal Simone Smith (Author)

In this extraordinary collection, the award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith gives voice to the mournful dead, their lives unjustly lost to violence, and to the grieving chorus of protestors in today's Black Lives Matter movement, in search of resilience and hope.

With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually stark, a gathering of gripping verses that unmasks a dialogue of tragic truths--the stories of lives taken unjustly and too soon.

Bold and deeply affecting, Dark Testament is a remarkable reckoning with our present moment, a call to action, and a plea for a more just future.

Along with the poems, Dark Testament includes a stirring introduction by the author that speaks to the content of the poetry, a Q&A with George Saunders, and a full-color photo-insert that commemorates victims of unlawful killings with photographs of memorials that have been created in their honor.

"I love this tremendously skillful, timely, and dazzling repurposing of passages of my novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. Crystal Simone Smith has, with her amazing ear and heart, found, in that earlier grief, a beautiful echo for our time." --George Saunders, New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December

"Written in response to the murder of George Floyd...this touching memorial to the Black lives lost to systemic racism is a rousing homage to those protesting in their honor, who refuse to let these deaths be in vain." - Publisher's Weekly

Author Biography

Crystal Simone Smith is a poet, indie-publisher, and educator. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks and co-authored, One Window's Light, A Collection of Haiku, edited by Lenard D. Moore (2017), which won the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Award for Best Haiku Anthology. Her latest collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Award (2022). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, POETRY Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. In 2020, she received a Duke University Humanities Unbounded Fellowship. She writes poetry about the human condition and social change. crystalsimonesmith.com

Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.7 x 6.2 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: January 03, 2023
ISBN9781250854360
Author Crystal Simone Smith
PublisherHenry Holt & Company
GenreYoung adult, Society & culture, and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedJanuary 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults and Adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Crystal Simone Smith is an award-winning poet and educator. She is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound and Dark Testament. She also authored 3 poetry chapbooks. In 2022, her collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Smith is the recipient a Duke Humanities Unbounded Fellowship. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, POETRY Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. She teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University and writes poetry about the human condition and social change. Smith is the current President of the Haiku Society of America.

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