How to baptize a child in Flint, Michigan : poems / Sarah Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Sarah, 1984- author.

Standardized Title:

How to baptize a child in Flint, Michigan (Compilation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flint (Mich.)--Poetry.

Flint (Mich.).

Michigan--Flint.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 54 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Persea Books, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"Spanning girlhood to motherhood, How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan traces the lineage of four generations of a Flint, Michigan family--from the trailer park to the factory floor to, perhaps, a future far away. These poems examine the wreckage of the American Dream and ask who will answer for the promises we were made to believe as children: God? Industry? America? If we are all a part of the problem, are we are also all a part of the cure?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Where They Don't Name Streets for Us

Ode to Flint, Michigan, Five Years, Three Months, Ten Days after the Water Crisis Began

Don't Touch

On the Playground, Brother Teaches the Old Testament

If the Pontiac Broke Down

Ode to Brother's Best Friend in the Trailer Park

When I Am

K Years Old, Brother Gets Taken in for Questioning

Ode to the City That Is Not My City

Six Reasons I Can't Answer the Door for Him at 3 in the Morning

Baby, Your Daddy Called to Say He Gave Us Chlamydia

How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan

It's 3:45 in the Morning & I'm Thinking of All the Mothers who are Not Awake Now

It's May in Flint, Michigan & We Skip Work to Watch Air Force One Descend Over the City

A List of Things I Hope You'll Understand about Everyone I Knew in the 21st Century

Picking up a Prescription for My Daughter at the Rite Aid That Replaced the Rite Aid where My Mother Picked up Prescriptions for Me

Brother Says in 1996, He Saw His Buddy Shoot a Girl

Ode to Flint, Michigan on December 30, 2014, the 78th Anniversary of the Great Sit-down Strike

Brother Gets Transferred Out of Solitary & Swears Jesus Planned It All

Telling My Daughter the Story of the Woman at the Well.

Notes:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book" -- title page.

2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award winner.

ISBN:

9780892555635

0892555637

OCLC:

1304247391