Description
From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, a startlingly original debut (Maggie Millner) that meanders toward possibilities of arboreal relief among entanglements of place, property, and urban planning in Charlottesville, Virginia
Shade is a place meanders east-west along Charlottesvilles Downtown Mall, seeking a Black sense of place at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the malls architectural history, and the speakers ongoing questions and reflections. The collection of poems is a moving invitation to open ones attention by looking up, down, and always within. Through lyric walking poems (tree walks and shade walks) and Bashō-style travelogue, Shade is a place unfolds as much through arboreal life as through ones inner lifesometimes alone, sometimes with others, and always among turning trees.
Author: Makshya Tolbert
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 11/04/2025
Series: Penguin Poets
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9780143138457
Language: English
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