"Poetry for our precarious moment, as Charleston has crafted an unmistakably resonant testament to the power and necessity of resistance." —Chicago Review of Books"This collection has moved me so completely, kept me rapt in wonder at its incisive craft and heady treatises-in-verse. While It's Important I Remember rails, seethes, and spews its rage in equal doses, it also soothes, goads, and, finally, exhorts." —L. Lamar Wilson, author of Sacrilegion"This is more than a collection of poetry; these poems are a portal into Cortney Lamar Charleston's brilliant mind. They challenge orthodoxy, they mine the archives, they expand our imaginations. It's Important I Remember is magnificent." —Clint Smith, author of Above Ground: Poems "Cortney Lamar Charleston's It's Important I Remember considers American history's relentless patterns while confronting our existence within its centuries-old design. Ambitious and unflinching, these poems are lessons in curiosity and compassion—'favor[ing] the right answer, not the correct one.'" —Nicole Sealey, author of The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
