It's Important I Remember: Poems - Hardcover

$28.00

It's Important I Remember: Poems - Hardcover

Name: It's Important I Remember: Poems - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780810149649
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by Cortney Lamar Charleston

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Book Overview

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America

"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.

ISBN	9780810149649
Author	Cortney Lamar Charleston
Publisher	Curbstone Press
Genre	Literature
Format	Hardcover
Published	February 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	244
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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