{"product_id":"im-always-so-serious-karisma-price-9781956046045","title":"I'm Always So Serious","description":"\u003cb\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eI'm Always so Serious\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKarisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended\u003cbr\u003emeditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New\u003cbr\u003eYork City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural\u003cbr\u003ereckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone \"Autocorrects\u003cbr\u003e'Nigga' to Night, '\" \u003ci\u003eIf Beale Street\u003cbr\u003eCould Talk\u003c\/i\u003e is recast with characters from \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey. \u003c\/i\u003eIn these pages there is grief, there is absence, there\u003cbr\u003eis violence--\"We\u003cbr\u003eknow that mostly everything around us \/ is measured in blood.\"--but there is\u003cbr\u003ealso immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a\u003cbr\u003ebook \"so dark you have no other option but to call it \/ precious.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karisma Price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1956046046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956046045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023 pg. 108","brand":"Karisma Price","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077047578879,"sku":"9781956046045","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68e74f23-034a-4202-aa2b-f41587c42af4.jpg?v=1685468039","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/im-always-so-serious-karisma-price-9781956046045","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}