{"product_id":"woke-shayla-brown-9798333401076","title":"Woke: What does it mean to be \"woke\"?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be woke when waking up costs everything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fierce, tender collection, Shayla Brown asks - and answers - that question with lyric honesty: she catalogs the bruises of history, the small violences of family and church, and the quiet rebellions that learn to survive, speak, and sing anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart testimony, part sermon, part incantation, these poems move from the front-porch confessions of \"12 Years Bleeding\" and the sharp spiritual interrogations of \"John 10: Stay Woke\" to intimate reflections on hair, motherhood, and the cost of being visible in a world built to erase you. Brown's voice is plainspoken and prophetic - she holds grief and anger in the same hand she uses to stitch reparations into everyday life. Here are elegies for stolen children, psalms for the exhausted, and manifestos for the unapologetic self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead this book if you want poems that are both balm and wake-up call: poems that name the wound, demand justice, teach tenderness, and insist that waking up is an act of survival and of revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWitness poems on erasure, systemic violence, and the ongoing work of remembering.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiritual lyricism that borrows from scripture, hymn, and sermon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePersonal essays-in-verse about hair, reproduction, family legacy, and the long labor of being believed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSharp cultural critique and tender memoir moments that pair to form a whole portrait of what it means to be Black and awake.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A collection that wakes you slowly and then refuses to let you sleep. Shayla Brown's poems are fierce, faithful, and necessary.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shayla Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798333401076\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Shayla Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996497686783,"sku":"9798333401076","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/woke-shayla-brown-9798333401076","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}