{"product_id":"wild-indigo-korey-williams-9780691293530","title":"Wild Indigo: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable poetic debut--a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, has inherited the house from his white grandmother--a bequest that offers solitude and space for his creative work but also forces him to confront the trauma of slavery. His male lover, troubled by the morality of inhabiting such a place, believes the property is deepening his own depression. As the couple reckons with the lover's mental state, Korey Williams's poems trace a mounting tension between legacy and refusal, creation and complicity. As the story unfolds, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e moves through a variety of poetic forms, from the sonnet to haibun, maintaining at once a powerful narrative momentum and the compression and musicality of lyric. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMixing elements of Southern Gothic and the genre of the artist's novel, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e is written in the tradition of verse narratives such as Anne Carson's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, Natasha Trethewey's \u003ci\u003eBellocq's Ophelia\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ciaran Carson's \u003ci\u003eFor All We Know\u003c\/i\u003e. Dreamy and uneasy, somber and erotic, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo \u003c\/i\u003easks what it means to make art--and to make a life--on contested ground, where beauty and violence are bound together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Korey Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691293538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691293530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Korey Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001187639551,"sku":"9780691293530","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-indigo-korey-williams-9780691293530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}