{"product_id":"be-recorder-poems-9781555978488","title":"Be Recorder: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the PEN Open Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarmen Gim nez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBe Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Gim nez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion--against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our complacency in an America that depends on it. This reckoning with self and nation demonstrates that who and where we are is as conditional as the fact of our compliance: \"Miss America from sea to shining sea \/ the huddled masses have a question \/ there is one of you and all of us.\" \u003ci\u003eBe Recorder\u003c\/i\u003e is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Gim nez Smith as one of the most vital and vivacious poets of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/24\/2019 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/23\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carmen Gim\u0026#233;nez Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659654983836,"sku":"9781555978488","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d3bc8bfa-4208-4339-bc73-56816c13d4e8.jpg?v=1603895209","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/be-recorder-poems-9781555978488","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}