{"product_id":"lullaby-for-the-grieving","title":"Lullaby for the Grieving","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSouthern Literary Review's Best Poetry Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eMaya Angelou Book Award 2025, Poetry, longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith previous work hailed by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as “unflinching” and “piercing”, Ashley M. Jones’s \u003cem\u003eLullaby for the Grieving\u003c\/em\u003e is her most personal collection to date.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her fourth poetry collection, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How does one find a path through the deep sorrow of losing a parent? What wonders of Blackness have to be suppressed to make way for \"progress\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJourneying through landscapes of Alabama, the Middle Passage and Underground Railroad, interior spaces of loss and love, and her father’s garden, Jones constructs both an elegy for her father and a celebration of the sacred exuberance and audacity of life. Featuring poems from her tenure as Alabama’s first Black and youngest Poet Laureate, \u003cem\u003eLullaby for the Grieving\u003c\/em\u003e finds calm in unimaginable storms and attempts to listen for the sounds of healing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283261604184,"sku":"9798885740586","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798885740586_b8e30ca5-aba9-4a09-acbe-6f9355b4db44.jpg?v=1777961734","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lullaby-for-the-grieving","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}