{"product_id":"worldly-things-by-michael-kleber-diggs-9781639550753","title":"Worldly Things","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \"New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Poetry\" Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e \"Poetry Title to Watch 2021\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e \"Poetry Collection to Read in 2021\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e \"14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now\" Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Books Are Magic \"Recommended Reading\" Selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sometimes,\" Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, \"everything reduces to circles and lines.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 neighbour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut \u003cem\u003eWorldly Things\u003c\/em\u003e refuses to \"offer allegiance\" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candour, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSonorous and measured, the poems of \u003cem\u003eWorldly Things\u003c\/em\u003e offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461792973036,"sku":"9781639550753","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781639550753-worldly-things.jpg?v=1774977775","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/worldly-things-by-michael-kleber-diggs-9781639550753","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}