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It's Important I Remember: Poems

It's Important I Remember: Poems

Charleston, Cortney Lamar

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 0810149648
ISBN13: 9780810149649
Publisher: Curbstone Press
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.10
Language: English

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America

History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to many, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union.

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