{"product_id":"small-talk-9798885740814","title":"Small Talk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark's debut collection asks us to lean into conversation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcie 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. \u003cem\u003eSmall Talk\u003c\/em\u003e works in both lyric and narrative traditions of trans poetics and spiritual writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a poet Marie Howe once praised as \"a stubborn inquisitive mind at work here and a resilient heart,\" \u003cem\u003eSmall Talk\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Acie Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hub City Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.82w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798885740814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClark, Acie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcie Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eDivinity in the Margins, I Witness: An Anthology of Documentary Poetry, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Florida Anthology. \u003c\/em\u003eHe lives in Arkansas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Acie Clark \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48969030697117,"sku":"9798885740814","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_4c5bb177-d62b-4260-ae95-fdef9bda0a25.jpg?v=1790753549","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/small-talk-9798885740814","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}