Countdown header img desk

MAI SUNT 00:00:00:00

MAI SUNT

X

Countdown header img  mob

MAI SUNT 00:00:00:00

MAI SUNT

X

Promotii popup img

🎁Cadou City Break de 4*,

în doi, la OSLO.😍

Lectura e biletul tău!

Comandă și câștigă!

Hood Vacations

Hood Vacations - Michal 'mj' Jones

Hood Vacations


Michal "MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling--an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of Hood Vacations tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors." It is a book of passing--as, through, and on. Hop on in.

"Hood Vacations is a massive triumph of lyric, of narrative brilliance, of imagery. But, above all, this book is generously transportative. The page becomes a portal through which a place emerges, and then becomes as familiar as your own home."--Hanif Abdurraqib

"Hood Vacations is a tender debut that takes us on a journey of Black childhood in the suburbs, the awakening of political consciousness, and the self-determination of young adulthood. It is a narrator that goes from child to parent, and the attendant worries and joys that come from being responsible for growing life. Jones deploys a variety of received and innovative poetic forms that engage in a formal shaping and reshaping of content to produce different registers of praise, recollection, and discernment. Like an afternoon of listening to the smooth jazz channel, we move through a set of biological and social relationships that imbricate the narrator in a web of becoming."--Arisa White

"It is a rare gift to read a first book by a poet whose vision is so sharp and who knows how to articulate it in a poem. Jones has so much to say and they know how to say it. I am enthralled by what I learn from these poems but I am in awe of their seriousness, their care, and their reach."--Juliana Spahr

"Hood Vacations is a melodically precise collection of journeys away from, back towards, and directly into what is both familiar and refreshing. A series of scene-setting poems inviting the reader to dine at a table prepared with an African diasporic flare. These poems are packed with lines of tiny songs that read like the blackest and most urgent spells being cast. For our protection, for our re-memory, for our future."--Darius Simpson

Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQ+ Studies.

Citeste mai mult

-10%

PRP: 112.10 Lei

!

Acesta este Pretul Recomandat de Producator. Pretul de vanzare al produsului este afisat mai jos.

100.89Lei

100.89Lei

112.10 Lei

Primesti 100 puncte

Important icon msg

Primesti puncte de fidelitate dupa fiecare comanda! 100 puncte de fidelitate reprezinta 1 leu. Foloseste-le la viitoarele achizitii!

Livrare in 2-4 saptamani

Plaseaza rapid comanda

Important icon msg

Poti comanda acest produs introducand numarul tau de telefon. Vei fi apelat de un operator Libris.ro in cele mai scurt timp pentru prealuarea datelor necesare.

Completeaza mai jos numarul tau de telefon

Descrierea produsului


Michal "MJ" Jones' debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling--an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional narrative. A nostalgia for an unreachable home permeates these poems: "We were mighty beautiful once, in golden dust." The speaker of Hood Vacations tells of magic: of praying mantises, bathtub octopuses, Black ghosts, & bringing back "rainbow soap colors." It is a book of passing--as, through, and on. Hop on in.

"Hood Vacations is a massive triumph of lyric, of narrative brilliance, of imagery. But, above all, this book is generously transportative. The page becomes a portal through which a place emerges, and then becomes as familiar as your own home."--Hanif Abdurraqib

"Hood Vacations is a tender debut that takes us on a journey of Black childhood in the suburbs, the awakening of political consciousness, and the self-determination of young adulthood. It is a narrator that goes from child to parent, and the attendant worries and joys that come from being responsible for growing life. Jones deploys a variety of received and innovative poetic forms that engage in a formal shaping and reshaping of content to produce different registers of praise, recollection, and discernment. Like an afternoon of listening to the smooth jazz channel, we move through a set of biological and social relationships that imbricate the narrator in a web of becoming."--Arisa White

"It is a rare gift to read a first book by a poet whose vision is so sharp and who knows how to articulate it in a poem. Jones has so much to say and they know how to say it. I am enthralled by what I learn from these poems but I am in awe of their seriousness, their care, and their reach."--Juliana Spahr

"Hood Vacations is a melodically precise collection of journeys away from, back towards, and directly into what is both familiar and refreshing. A series of scene-setting poems inviting the reader to dine at a table prepared with an African diasporic flare. These poems are packed with lines of tiny songs that read like the blackest and most urgent spells being cast. For our protection, for our re-memory, for our future."--Darius Simpson

Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQ+ Studies.

Citeste mai mult

S-ar putea sa-ti placa si

Parerea ta e inspiratie pentru comunitatea Libris!

Acum se comanda

Noi suntem despre carti, si la fel este si

Newsletter-ul nostru.

Aboneaza-te la vestile literare si primesti un cupon de -10% pentru viitoarea ta comanda!

*Reducerea aplicata prin cupon nu se cumuleaza, ci se aplica reducerea cea mai mare.

Ma abonez image one
Ma abonez image one