![]() ![]() A classic like My Antonia would certainly be a contender otherwise. I’ve enjoyed Michael Pollan’s book, How to Change your Mind. I have a few honorable mentions as well–books that fell out of contention primarily because they were older. Ralph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87), Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, recommends How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan and How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith. My full review is here, but I absolutely recommend this book for everyone who wants to see the world around them with different eyes. ![]() But he is still a seeker–seeking to understand how an institution that hasn’t officially existed in the United States since 1865 still lingers in contemporary lives and cultures. Smith is passionate about the still-raw wounds of slavery. He takes along his personal history as an African-American man and his digital recorder. Smith takes a journey to sites associated with slavery from Monticello to Angola Prison to the Door of No Return at Goree Island, Senegal. Poets can make excellent prose artists, as Clint Smith proved once again in my favorite read from 2022: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. ![]()
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