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Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2022-07-12
- Pages
- 96
- ISBN
- 1639550755
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
ISBN-10
1639550755
ISBN-13
9781639550753
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057258282
Product Key Features
Book Title
Worldly Things
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, American / African American, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Subjects & Themes / Family
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Table Of Content
One End of Class Source of My Confidence The American Variety I Love My Neighbors as I Love Myself After you left Superman and My Brother, Spiderman and Me After they left A Simple Question Seismic Activities Sustenance Adaptation Ode to My Mother's Face In Convenience Gloria Mundi Two Coniferous Fathers Gestation Fantasy Arterial Confluence Lost in the Crowd Innocence as Collateral Back in Huntington My Ultimate Thought Is This What Name for This? Man Dies After Coma Grinding Down to Prayer Fixtures America Is Loving Me to Death Three Ars Poetica Postcard from the Bottom of a Lake Worldly Things Here All Alone Access Postcard to Sean Prestidigitation Adoration Embouchure Structural Fatigue Dispatch from Middle America Dormancy The Grove Every Mourning
Synopsis
"I am captivated, consoled, and bowled over by these poems, knifelike in their concision and oracular at their core." --TRACY K. SMITH, A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021 A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection "Sometimes," writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines." In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics--couple with moments of wrenching grief--a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to "offer allegiance" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. "Let's create folklore side-by-side," he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. "All of us want," after all, "our share of light, and just enough rainfall." Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward--toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics., "Sometimes," writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines." In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics--couple with moments of wrenching grief--a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to "offer allegiance" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. "Let's create folklore side-by-side," he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. "All of us want," after all, "our share of light, and just enough rainfall." Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward--toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics., Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021" A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection An Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection "Sometimes," Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines." In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics--couple with moments of wrenching grief--a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to "offer allegiance" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. "Let's create folklore side-by-side," he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. "All of us want," after all, "our share of light, and just enough rainfall." Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward--toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.
LC Classification Number
PS3611.L44236W67
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