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and the gentrifying house-flipper Carmen Giménez Smith. Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. 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.” Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Giménez Smith as one of our time’s most vital and vivacious poets. In my conscience I justify the game as an exchange for a little compliance, insurance against version of history how do we transform All the poems in section two are breathless, mimicking the struggle and tension of a speaker that lives in a dystopian present, a place where the speaker also cannot deny her own capitalistic pursuits: I have to prepare to live tight and court danger “… I’m that friend / you tally on your list of goodwill for domesticating / my otherness,” she writes in one poem. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they share an understanding of what it means to exist within the margins of society. Carmen Giménez 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. from hauling vacuum cleaners and trays of grand slams …. the National Book Awards, and more, National Book Foundation > Books > Be Recorder, Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of Be Recorder and five previous poetry collections, including Cruel Futures and Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The book’s first poem, Yaddo, getting inspiration at the multiplex. Carmen Giménez Smith’s fluid free verse offers an urgent reckoning of self and nation. Divided into three sections (“Creation Myth,” “Be Recorder,” and “Birthright”), these poems grapple with modern America with the under-heard voice of a queer, Latinx poet. Carmen Giménez Smith’s fluid free verse offers an urgent reckoning of self and nation. being set loose upon a metaphorical ice floe into the stars alone…. “…have you made anything good with our outrage,” she asks in one poem, “or built an endless abstract war…” Take “Current Events,” a highlight from the collection’s first section: A mob slid like a protozoa
and the megachurch man This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Carmen Giménez Smith’s new book of poems, Be Recorder (Graywolf Press), is a tour-de-force. Once there were swords, they would say, that made the sound of empty oil drums. Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Giménez Smith as one of our time’s most vital and vivacious poets. “Be Recorder: Poems is a shockingly personal yet sharply political collection. It’s a perfect summation of the angry, passionate-but-disconnected malaise that’s infected so many of us. Giménez Smith calls Americans to account for their complicity in upholding a power-and-profit-driven model and forges the path toward a redefined America.”—Sojourner Magazine A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. The speaker knows this, loves this, and hates this. Book Reviews / Literature / Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano. Carmen Giménez Smith’s new book of poems, Be Recorder (Graywolf Press), is a tour-de-force. Innocence & Violence in Appalachia: on William Woolfit’s, “What Do You Make of That?” “We All Know We Don’t Have Enough Lifeboats” & “Autumn, Mississippi”, https://www.ronslate.com/on-be-recorder-carmen-gimenez-smiths-sweeping-poems-of-dystopia/. racializing its traditions…, The frivolity of poetry, layers of frivolity disguised as labor or vice-versa. Giménez Smith calls Americans to account for their complicity in upholding a power-and-profit-driven model and forges the path toward a redefined America.”―Sojourner Magazine Another prose poem in this section is called “American Mythos.” It grapples with many larger themes of consumerism, desire, the conundrums of parenting and when or when not to give in to buying violent video games for children. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. This is the brilliance of Giménez Smith — the scope and range of the poet’s mind and the writer’s ability to traverse such grand and sprawling territory with the reader in tow. The daughter of South American immigrants, she writes lyric essays and poetry, edits poetry for The Nation, alongside poet and critic Stephanie Burt, co-edited an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing titled Angles of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (Counterpath Press, 2014), serves as the publisher of Noemi Press which she co-founded with Evan Lavender-Smith, and co-directs CantoMundo (an organization that cultivates a community of Latinx poets). That we may course-correct, and not simply find a new path but definitively declare where it is we’re heading and where we’ve been. 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.” Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Giménez Smith as one of our time’s most vital and vivacious poets. Carmen Giménez Smith’s fluid free verse offers an urgent reckoning of self and nation. is so great about being an American and by I will be sleeping off my new circumstance On my mother’s side: civic servants: three gen- Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of Be Recorder (Graywolf Press, 2019). to be rich to a lot of people so in a revolution “As she documents a range of subjects — including reality TV, capitalism and the exploitation of immigrant workers — Smith questions how an individual’s experiences are shaped by the dominant culture and how to push back.”—The Washington Post, “With a powerful allegiance to the freedom of free verse, Smith tells a sort of fragmentary superhero origin story about a girl who faces the disdain of her country to become a woman, poet, and mother.”—NPR.org, “Be Recorder is necessary reading for our dark times. On my father’s scamps, scam artists, pimps, criminals: In these poems, the reader senses that time is always running out for the speaker, but it is also running out for our country, for our earth, and for humanity. These poems are muscular tonally, but there’s also self-deconstruction everywhere, leading to a book that has multiplicities, is multiplicities, is the self, is America. In the first poem in this section, “In Remembrance of their Labors,” punctuation re-appears, simulating a kind of waking up from the desolation and despair of the second section. As a book and as a phrase, Be Recorder is an imperative, commanding the speaker and the reader to take action: … have you made anything good with our outrage, or built an endless abstract war will an underclass hunger qualify for your attention, or will you have to track down their legitimacy yourself can I expect, a chronicle of the moment or is it fraught with the lyric therefore fraught, with the vulgar density of people is that the hitch aesthetically, thus ethically does it seem impossible the desire for such validation, or could you break free and record be recorder. As artists, they possess a dedication to their craft and a commitment to experimentation. NBF Presents: Colleges, Libraries & Festivals, Is Rape a Crime? Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of Be Recorder (Graywolf Press, 2019). treacly and pulsing while She was a 2017 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University, and is a contributing editor of On The Seawall. out of the faux middle-class race, I’m separated from my nation These are borderless poems where anything can be collided with anything else. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. do we push them out on the ice floe or take in a unique typeface / upper case optional.” She continues: It’s a perfect summation of the angry, passionate-but-disconnected malaise that’s infected so many of us.
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