{"product_id":"worldly-things","title":"Worldly Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Poetry\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \"Poetry Title to Watch 2021\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \"Poetry Collection to Read in 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e \"14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Books Are Magic \"Recommended Reading\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e“Sometimes,” writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \nBut \u003ci\u003eWorldly Things\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nSonorous and measured, the poems of \u003ci\u003eWorldly Things\u003c\/i\u003e offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49757592420696,"sku":"9781639550753","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781639550753.jpg?v=1770711343","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/worldly-things","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}