Shade is a place (Penguin Poets)
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- Synopsis
- 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, VirginiaShade 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.
- Copyright:
- 2025
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 96 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593512524
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780143138457, 9798217163908, 9798217165100
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 11/04/25
- Copyrighted By:
- MaKshya Tolbert
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.