Chime

by Len Lawson

Overview

Len Lawson's Chime is the rough melody reverberating from the whirlwind of these times and past times touching the singular and collective Black body. While the poems have a broad preoccupation with mortality and trauma, they are ultimately life-affirming. This collection reminds us that the grief and anxiety in the Black community are only recognition that what is far too often, too brutally and too unjustly lost is substantial, important and invaluable. Here are words that you need to read, that we all do.

-Cortney Lamar Charleston, author of 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize

winner, Telepathologies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780998935867
Publisher:	Get Fresh Books LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Len Lawson is the author of the chapbook Before the Night Wakes You (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and co-editor of Hand in Hand: Poets Respond to Race (Muddy Ford Press, 2017). His most recent book of poetry is CHIME (Get Fresh Books LLC, 2019). Len is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He received fellowships from Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the inaugural 2018 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellowship at the Weymouth Center for the Arts from the North Carolina Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, [PANK], Verse Daily, Winter Tangerine Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Len is a Poetry Reader & Book Reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly. He is a PhD student in English Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches English at the University of South Carolina Sumter.