{"product_id":"the-lonely-letters-ashon-t-crawley-9781478008248","title":"The Lonely Letters","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, A tells Moth: \"Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding.\" But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley--writing as A--meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ashon T. Crawley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478008245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478008248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Ashon T. Crawley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049158078719,"sku":"9781478008248","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5139119f-d569-4163-b54d-4cc9f838dc22.jpg?v=1684999972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-lonely-letters-ashon-t-crawley-9781478008248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}