· Poet Clint Smith says he began writing “Counting Descent” in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. That shooting by a white police officer sparked weeks of. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature. · Emotionally draining. And that’s exactly how his first book of poetry, Counting Descent, published in August, sneaks up on its readers. I’ve watched Clint recite poetry for almost a decade now Author: David Dennis Jr.
Clint Smith is the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent () and a meta-historical travelogue novel How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (). Counting Descent won the Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. After studying Clint Smith's Counting Descent with #thebookchat, I knew that I had found the first poetry collection that I was going to teach. Teaching an entire collection of poetry was something that I had considered, but did not see the full benefits from until reading and working through Smith's Counting Descent from start to finish. Poet and Educator Clint Smith reads his poem "Counting Descent" for Poetry in www.doorway.ruer today via Harvard for this summer's intensive course for K
-- Kiese Laymon, Author of Long Division Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. "Do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?". Here Smith narrates one of the first betrayals of innocence a teenager goes through as they navigate their way through adolescence. The “soles” of a teens feet reminisce on times when they would run races in grade school and it would be enough. Enough to make them see their potential and celebrate it. Enough to make them feel important. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear.
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