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Small Talk
Paperback
Series: New Southern Voices Poetry Prize
Publisher Price: $16.95
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.74
Language: English
New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark's debut collection asks us to lean into conversation.
Acie Clark wants to talk. In his debut collection, Clark reconsiders our relationship to talking about work and the weather. These poems tell the story of a trans man coming into a new literal and figurative voice while finding language for the world around him. In platonic love poems, interfaith self-talk, and images of the queer south, Clark calls contradictions into question and insists on the power of the conjunction and the hyphen. Small Talk works in both lyric and narrative traditions of trans poetics and spiritual writing.
From a poet Marie Howe once praised as a stubborn inquisitive mind at work here and a resilient heart, Small Talk introduces a unique new voice. Through lenses of recovery, birding, caregiving, gospel and semantics, this collection believes in multiplicities, in the seemingly contradicting identities that make us who we are, and that talking to each other might still save us.
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