{"product_id":"its-important-i-remember-poems-9780810149649","title":"It's Important I Remember: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.\" In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to many, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and the author of \u003ci\u003eTelepathologies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoppelgangbanger\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033945960722,"sku":"9780810149649","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c02a213-62df-4d94-9eb2-4a24fe932b09.jpg?v=1770980710","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/its-important-i-remember-poems-9780810149649","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}