Small Talk by Clark, Acie
Small Talk by Clark, Acie

Small Talk

New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark's debut collection asks us to lean into conversation.Acie...
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Author: Acie Clark
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Small Talk by Clark, Acie

Small Talk

$20.34
Small Talk by Clark, Acie

Small Talk

$20.34
Author: Acie Clark
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.



Author: Acie Clark
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.82w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9798885740814


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About the Author
Clark, Acie: -

Acie Clark is a multi-genre writer from Florida and Georgia. He has taught at the University of Central Arkansas, at Interlochen Center for the Arts, and at the Provincetown Public Library. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama where he worked for Black Warrior Review as the online editor and as a farmhand at Snows Bend Farm. His work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center, selected for Best New Poets, and anthologized in Divinity in the Margins, I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poetry, and The Florida Anthology. He lives in Arkansas.

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