A Fortune for Your Disaster
Poems
Zando · Print & ebook · September 3, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- These poems meet heartbreak and grief through the music and histories that shape a self.
- Themes
- Heartbreak and self-rebuilding, A mother's death and grief, Forgiveness and history
- Genres
- African American Poetry, Poetry About Death, American Poetry
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“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this!
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Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.” —Booklist, Starred Review In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'." It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside—from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs—to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.
Private, Shared Histories
These poems meet heartbreak and grief through the music and histories that shape a self.
Come here for
- Poems about rebuilding after heartbreak
- Personal and shared histories held in the same frame
Expect
- Touchstones from Marvin Gaye to a neighbor’s dogs
- A searching mix of grief, forgiveness, and cultural memory
Where it sits
| Poetry About Death | 91% |
|---|---|
| African American Poetry | 69% |
| American Poetry | 65% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- African American Poetry
- Poetry About Death
- Authors
- Hanif Abdurraqib
- Publisher
- Zando
- Published
- September 3, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Heartbreak and self-rebuilding · A mother's death and grief · Forgiveness and history
- Reading lane
- American Poetry