Description
| Product ID: | 9781956046045 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | I'm Always so Serious |
| Authors: | Author: Karisma Price |
| Page Count: | 92 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Ethnic studies, Black & Asian studies |
| Description: | "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extendedmeditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and NewYork City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a culturalreckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone “Autocorrects‘Nigga’ to Night,'” If Beale StreetCould Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, thereis violence—“Weknow that mostly everything around us / is measured in blood.”—but there isalso immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, abook “so dark you have no other option but to call it / precious.” "I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone “Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to Night,''” If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence—“We know that mostly everything around us / is measured in blood.”—but there is also immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a book “so dark you have no other option but to call it / precious.” |
| Imprint Name: | Sarabande Books, Incorporated |
| Publisher Name: | Sarabande Books, Incorporated |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-30 |
