{"product_id":"lonely-letters","title":"Lonely Letters","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding.” But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley-writing as A-meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218119348568,"sku":"9781478008248","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781478008248_0a7e0d34-149d-4c94-b12e-027116ec272d.jpg?v=1776807013","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lonely-letters","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}