A fortune for your disaster : poems

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The work A fortune for your disaster : poems represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A fortune for your disaster : poems

Title remainder

poems

Statement of responsibility

by Hanif Abdurraqib

Creator

• Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

Author

• Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

Subject

• American poetry
• American poetry
• American poetry -- 21st century
• POETRY / American / African American
• POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss
• Poetry
• Poésie
• poetry
• Poetry
• 2000-2099

Genre

• Poésie
• poetry
• Poetry

Language

eng

Summary

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and finally admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off in the '98 finals. It's about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'." It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared, and how black people can write about flowers at a time like this. Abdurraqib writes across different tones and registers, with humor and sadness, and uses touchstones from the world outside--from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs--to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility." --

Member of

• Poems., Selections

Assigning source

Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

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no index present

Literary form

poetry