{"product_id":"dmos-benjamn-naka-hasebe-kingsley-9781571315250","title":"D\u0026#275;mos: An American Multitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Electric Literature \"Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2021\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjam? Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's newest collection arrives brimming with personal and political histories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'You tell me how I was born what I am, '\" demands Naka-Hasebe Kingsley--of himself, of the reader, of the world. The poems of \u003cem\u003eDēmos: An American Multitude \u003c\/em\u003eseek answers in the Haudenosaunee story of The Lake and Her children; in the scope of a .243 aimed at a pregnant doe; in the Dōgen poem jotted on a napkin by his obaasan; in a flag burning in a church parking lot. Here, Naka-Hasebe Kingsley places multiracial displacement, bridging disparate experiences with taut, percussive language that will leave readers breathless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith astonishing formal range, \u003cem\u003eDēmos\u003c\/em\u003e also documents the intolerance that dominates American society. What can we learn from mapping the genealogy of a violent and loud collective? How deeply do anger, violence, and oppression run in the blood? From adapted Punnett squares to Biblical epigraphs to the ghastly comment section of a local news website, \u003cem\u003eDēmos \u003c\/em\u003ediagrams surviving America as an other-ed American--and it refuses to flinch from the forces that would see that multitude erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDēmos \u003c\/em\u003eis a resonant proclamation of identity and endurance from one of the most intriguing new voices in American letters--a voice singing \"long on America as One \/ body but many parts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjam? Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 157131525X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021 pg. 75","brand":"Benjam? Naka-Hasebe Kingsley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048875815167,"sku":"9781571315250","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d1f22eb-2d86-4457-bca0-816ce8502313.jpg?v=1684998333","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dmos-benjamn-naka-hasebe-kingsley-9781571315250","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}