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We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems

Simon & Schuster

We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems

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 William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today.

In We Inherit What the Fires Left, award-winning poet William Evans embarks on a powerful new collection that explores the lived experience of race in the American suburbs and what dreams and injuries are passed from generation to generation. Fall under the spell of Evans's boldly intimate, wise, and emotionally candid voice in these urgent, electrifying poems.

This eloquent collection explores not only what these inheritances are composed of, but what price the bearer must pay for such legacies, and the costly tolls exacted on both body and spirit. Evans writes searingly from the perspective of the marginalized, delivering an unflinching examination of what it is like to be a black man raising a daughter in predominantly white spaces, and the struggle to build a home and a future while carrying the weight of the past.

However, in beautiful and quiet scenes of domesticity with his daughter or in thoughtful reflection within himself, Evans offers words of hope to readers, proving that resilience can ultimately bloom even in the face of prejudice. Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hanif Abdurraqib will find a brilliant, fresh new talent to add to their lists in William Evans.

Book Details

Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
9781982127398
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Authors:
William Evans
Published Date:
2020-03-24
Language:
English

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About William Evans

A poet, performer, and instructor from Columbus, Ohio, William Evans founded the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam in 2009 and co-founded the website Black Nerd Problems. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Still Can't Do My Daughter's Hair (Button Poetry, 2017). He has competed at the National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam. He is a Callaloo and Watering Hole Fellow and received the 2016 Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant and the 2018 Spirit of Columbus Foundation Grant.

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