Be 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 Gimenez 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." Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Gimenez Smith as one of the most vital and vivacious poets of our time.

Carmen Gimenez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable

About the Author
Carmen Gimenez Smith is the author of six books, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, and Bring Down the Little Birds, winner of the American Book Award. She teaches at Virginia Tech University.

Awards
Commended for National Book Awards (Poetry) 2019.



Book Information
ISBN 9781555978488
Author Carmen Gimenez Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 184g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 179mm * 7mm