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DESCRIPTION:Reading with poet Clint Smith at Revolution Books in Berkeley on Saturday 
 October 15 at 7pm. \n\nClint will be reading from his debut collection, 
 Counting Descent.\n\n"So many of these poems just blow me away. Incredibly 
 beautiful and powerful."\n-- Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim 
 Crow\n\nClint Smith is included in the new collection by Jesmyn Ward, The 
 Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. He is a 2014 National 
 Poetry Slam champion, a Cave Canem Fellow, and his writing has appeared or 
 is forthcoming in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Guardian, and 
 Boston Review. He teaches at Harvard and he grew up in New Orleans. \n\n"In 
 Counting Descent, Clint Smith soars and patiently walks between Harvard 
 Square and New Orleans, between the gap in his father's teeth and Baldwin's 
 conversation with the Protest Novel, between the movement of Drake's hands 
 and joy of sliding down a slide with his mother. Nothing, not one word, 
 verse or line feels forced. This is only important because though most of 
 the book feels written in what artist call "the pocket," nothing here feels 
 at all safe... Counting Descent is more than brilliant. More than lyrical. 
 More than bluesy. More than courageous. It is terrifying in its ability to 
 at once not hide and show readers why it wants to hide so badly...."\n-- 
 Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/08/18792036.php
SUMMARY:Poet Clint Smith reading from his debut book "Counting Descent" 10-15-16 at 7pm
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA  94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/08/18792036.php
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