{"product_id":"stop-and-frisk-asim-jabari-9780999823941","title":"Stop and Frisk: American Poems","description":"\"Urgency and imagination, truth and focus: Jabari Asim brings those qualities together in a book of poetry that confronts the lethal face of racism: death-by-police. This book challenges the boundaries of the art by being, in a very good sense of the word, \u003cem\u003edocumentary.\u003c\/em\u003e\"-Robert Pinsky\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eStop and Frisk, \u003c\/em\u003eJabari Asim ruthlessly interrogates entrenched injustice and its insidious echoes. Part rap sheet, part concept album, Asim lays down tracks that add conviction to our collective broken record: \u003cem\u003eWhat could be more American than pretending truths were self-evident when they seldom were? \u003c\/em\u003eDrawing defiant inspiration from the news and the Blues, these poems arrest our attention and burn grooves into us. These starkly revelatory poems expose the dark heart of our nation and call for a reckoning-the only way out \u003cem\u003ebefore everything breaks \/ into hurt, noise, and ever after\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asim Jabari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0999823949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999823941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsday Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Asim Jabari","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995899363583,"sku":"9780999823941","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3aaaec0b-bbec-45ea-b7d1-11ba8839f305.jpg?v=1683338517","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stop-and-frisk-asim-jabari-9780999823941","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}