{"product_id":"honeyfish-paperback-4","title":"Honeyfish - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren K. Alleyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To \u003cbr\u003e days that we want to remember. Or forget. But don't. Thus in our \u003cbr\u003e sister's memory, we survive in the luxury of dying. The courage of \u003cbr\u003e loving. The re-imagining of our souls for another generation. Thank \u003cbr\u003e you, my dear sister for your words saluting our living, our lives.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Sonia Sanchez, winner of the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award \u003cbr\u003e from the Academy of American Poets \u003cbr\u003e \"In exquisitely crafted poems of heart-accelerating candor and \u003cbr\u003e clarity, Lauren K. Alleyne says to all the black bodies slain by hatred \u003cbr\u003e and militarized fear, 'Nothing I say will save you, but how can I say \u003cbr\u003e nothing?' Honeyfish is an elegy for all the countless lost, and a praise \u003cbr\u003e song for the many black lives that persist in their wish to give and \u003cbr\u003e receive love.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America \u003cbr\u003e \"Even in the places we think of as most beautiful, the endless gong \u003cbr\u003e of the body being broken and defiled will find us. How can we see \u003cbr\u003e the sun and the ocean and the clear blue sky as anything other than \u003cbr\u003e a kind of cruel joke in the face of so much suffering? The extraordinary gift of Lauren K Alleyne's, Honeyfish is that she shows \u003cbr\u003e the world in all its brutality and loss and somehow lets us mourn within the poems, which in \u003cbr\u003e turn allows us to begin some kind of healing. These are poems whose elegy is ongoing, whose \u003cbr\u003e elegy need never happened but for hatred. The waves go in and out and so many people keep \u003cbr\u003e being killed. And here is this extraordinary poet, making a heaven that is freedom, that is the \u003cbr\u003e dream of being welcomed and loved and tended to. This is a book for our times and for the \u003cbr\u003e day when these times are over and we can rejoice.\" \u003cbr\u003e -- Gabrielle Calvacoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 57\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.7 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352057397497,"sku":"9781936970599","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZjVlS3VWd092dis4RVBRcHN5L1plUT09_8ad252a2-e40f-4858-a7ea-1fb46a512c4a.webp?v=1769805475","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/honeyfish-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}