{"product_id":"its-important-i-remember-cortney-lamar-charleston-9780810149649","title":"It's Important I Remember: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"History doesn't repeat, it rhymes.\" In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to most, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cortney Lamar Charleston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810149648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810149649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Curbstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Cortney Lamar Charleston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46880930922751,"sku":"9780810149649","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_afb0defc-4290-4e86-a408-629d75310dd9.jpg?v=1747970153","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/its-important-i-remember-cortney-lamar-charleston-9780810149649","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}