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Shade Is a Place

Shade Is a Place

Tolbert, Makshya

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0143138456
ISBN13: 9780143138457
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 Charlottesville's Downtown Mall, seeking a Black sense of place at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the mall's architectural history, and the speaker's ongoing questions and reflections. The collection of poems is a moving invitation to open one's 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 one's inner life--sometimes alone, sometimes with others, and always among turning trees.

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