{"product_id":"trouble-the-water-paperback-6","title":"Trouble the Water - 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\u003eDerrick Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMary Szybist\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich in religious and artistic imagery, \u003ci\u003eTrouble the Water\u003c\/i\u003e is an intriguing exploration of race, sexuality, and identity, particularly where self-hood is in constant flux. These intimate, sensual poems interweave pop culture and history--moving from the Bible through several artistic eras--to interrogate what it means to be, as Austin says, fully human as a \"queer, black body\" in 21st century America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"'Expect poison of the standing water, ' Blake warned, highlighting the dangers of imaginative stagnation. I'm now tempted to believe that Blake himself has sent us Derrick Austin and his remarkable collection, \u003ci\u003eTrouble the Water\u003c\/i\u003e. At once gospel and troubadour song, these deeply spiritual and expansively erotic poems are lucid, unflinching, urgent. This is an extraordinary debut.\" --\u003cb\u003eMary Szybist, winner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerrick Austin is a Cave Canem fellow and earned his MFA from the University of Michigan where he was awarded a Hopwood Award in graduate poetry. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2015, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion, New England Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, The Paris-American, Memorious, \u003c\/i\u003e and other journals and anthologies. He is the Social Media Coordinator for \u003ci\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Szybist is most recently the author of \u003ci\u003eIncarnadine\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. Her first collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eGranted\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Szybist teaches at Lewis \u0026amp; Clark College in Portland, Oregon.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352730026233,"sku":"9781942683049","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/jde1QLjB29781942683049_2b4a8f7c-4769-4f77-9819-acf5b4e9e2f6.webp?v=1769815540","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/trouble-the-water-paperback-6","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}