Ebook {Epub PDF} Be Recorder: Poems by Carmen Gimenez Smith

 · “Be Recorder: Poems is a shockingly personal yet sharply political collection. Carmen Giménez Smith’s fluid free verse offers an urgent reckoning of self and nation. 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 MagazineBrand: Graywolf Press.  · The book’s first poem, Origins, lays the groundwork for the complication that Be Recorder addresses sections of more narrative, crystalized lyrics help us approach the title poem, 'Be Recorder,' which beats like a hidden heart in the center of the 4/4(13). Carmen Gimenez Smith’s sixth book of poetry, Be Recorder (), shares with her previous work a range of tone, linguistic complexity, and formal experimentation. However, this set of poems takes on timely issues, connecting to matters of personal, cultural, and political importance in modern America. Its themes include race and the immigrant experience, class and economic instability, and gender and .

Carmen Giménez Smith's new book of poems, Be Recorder (Graywolf Press), is a tour-de-force. It gets its title from the second section of the same title, as well as from a poem within that section. As a book and as a phrase, Be Recorder is an imperative, commanding the speaker and the reader to take action. Carmen Giménez Smith teaches at Virginia Tech. "Be Recorder" (Graywolf Press, ) is her sixth book of poems. Illustration by R. O. Blechman Advertisement. Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable. 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 Giménez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to.

The book’s first poem, Origins, lays the groundwork for the complication that Be Recorder addresses sections of more narrative, crystalized lyrics help us approach the title poem, 'Be Recorder,' which beats like a hidden heart in the center of the collection. The poem is remarkable, epic, and important. 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 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. Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of six books, including Be Recorder, 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. www.doorway.ru More by author.