{"product_id":"unfinished-grief-joshua-chambers-letson-9781479837267","title":"Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTakes up the work of artists and theorists who ask what happens when we learn to linger, dwell, live, and work with queer grief\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat if, instead of overcoming grief, we learned to live with it? \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to linger within loss and to understand mourning not as an endpoint, but as a mode of relation, continuance, and care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this lyrical follow-up to his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAfter the Party, \u003c\/i\u003e Joshua Chambers-Letson turns toward the art and theory of grief as a way of imagining queer survival. Drawing from queer of color critique, performance studies, Asian American studies, and Black studies, Chambers-Letson explores how love and loss are inseparable conditions of queer life. Engaging artists including Yoko Ono, Gertrude Stein, Bimbola Akinbola, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Joshua Rains, and Kia LaBeija, he considers the lessons art and performance teach about living with what remains unfinished. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of public and private catastrophe, from war and pandemics to the ravages of racial capitalism, \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e insists that mourning and political struggle are entwined practices. Through sensuous, reflective prose and a deeply personal critical voice, Chambers-Letson reveals how grief can be both a sustaining and shattering site of vulnerability, creativity, and communal becoming. Intimate, meditative, and defiantly alive, \u003ci\u003eUnfinished Grief\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on the queer art of mourning in this guide to the beautiful, difficult work of staying with loss and finding life within it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Chambers-Letson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479837261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479837267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Joshua Chambers-Letson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520138260735,"sku":"9781479837267","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e44a121f-d2b9-4f40-b9e8-b678a30578ea.jpg?v=1778740976","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unfinished-grief-joshua-chambers-letson-9781479837267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}