Above ground poems
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. Th...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- All at once
- Waiting on a heartbeat
- FaceTime
- Passage
- "It's all in your head"
- Trying to light a candle in the wind
- When people say "we have made it through worse before"
- By chance
- In the grocery store you are wrapped tightly onto my chest
- Ode to the electric baby swing
- Ode to the infant hiccup
- Ode to the first smile
- Nociception
- Your national anthem
- For Willie Francis, the first known person to survive an execution by electric chair, 1946
- Roots
- Across generations
- The drone
- Pangaea
- The New York Times reports that 200 civilians have just been killed by U.S. military air strikes
- The great escape
- Nomenclature
- This is an incomprehensive list of all the reasons I know I married the right person
- Lines in the sand
- And the world keeps spinning
- Tree rings
- Here nor there
- At the Superdome after the storm has passed
- It is Halloween night and you are dressed as a hot dog
- When we took you to the beach for the first time
- Ode to the bear hug
- For your first birthday
- When we told you another baby was coming
- Legacy
- Counting descent II
- Where are they now?
- I am looking at a photo
- The first time I saw my grandfather cry
- Coming home
- Cartography
- After the storm they attempted to identify the bodies
- For the doctor's records
- Deceit
- Expedience
- For the doctor's records, follow-up
- We see another school shooting on the news
- The gun
- This year was the first year I could not remember your voice
- Ode to the double stroller
- Gold stars
- Zoom school with a toddler
- In the ocean there is a small jellyfish
- Ossicones
- You ask me what sounds a giraffe makes
- Yesterday afternoon I took you to the park
- The most remarkable thing about dinosaurs
- Ars poetica
- Above ground
- Tradition
- What I've learned
- Dance party
- The Andromeda galaxy is the closest galaxy to our Milky Way
- Alarm
- Prehistoric questions
- Punctuation
- Univers(al)
- Ode to bedtime
- Ode to those first fifteen minutes after the kids are finally asleep
- When standing in a cabin at the Whitney Plantation
- Look at that pond.
