| Chime Contributor(s): Lawson, Len (Author) |
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ISBN: 0998935867 ISBN-13: 9780998935867 Publisher: Get Fresh Books Publishing, a Nonprofit Corp OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 7.9" W x 8.8" (0.40 lbs) 66 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Death/Dying |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Len Lawson's CHIME is the rough melody reverberating from the whirlwind of these times and past times, touching the singular and collective Black body. While the poems have a broad preoccupation with mortality and trauma, they are ultimately life-affirming. This collection reminds us that the grief and anxiety in the Black community are only recognition that what is far too often, too brutally and too unjustly lost is substantial, important and invaluable. Here are words that you need to read, that we all do. --Cortney Lamar Charleston |
Contributor Bio(s): Lawson, Len: - Len Lawson is the author of the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and co-editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). His most recent book of poetry is CHIME (Get Fresh Books LLC, 2019). Len is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He received fellowships from Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the inaugural 2018 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship at the Weymouth Center for the Arts from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, [PANK], Verse Daily, Winter Tangerine Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Len is a Poetry Reader & Book Reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly. He is a PhD student in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches English at the University of South Carolina Sumter. |
