{"product_id":"un-american-paperback","title":"Un-American - 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\u003eHafizah Augustus Geter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems shimmering with lyricism ask who can inherit a country?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e2021 PEN Open Book Finalist \u003cbr\u003e2021 NAACP Image Award Finalist, Poetry\u003cbr\u003e2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, Longlist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes--linguistic, cultural, racial, familial--of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you. Through her mother's death and her father's illnesses, Geter weaves the natural world into the discourse of grief, human interactions, and socio-political discord. This collection thrums with authenticity and heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSAMPLE POEM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTestimony\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. President, \u003cbr\u003eAfter they shot me they tackled my sister.\u003cbr\u003eThe sound of her knees hitting the sidewalk \u003cbr\u003emade my stomach ache. It was a bad pain. \u003cbr\u003eLike when you love someone \u003cbr\u003eand they lie to you. Or that time Mikaela cried \u003cbr\u003eall through science class and wouldn't tell anyone why. \u003cbr\u003eThis isn't even my first letter to you, \u003cbr\u003ein the first one I told you about my room \u003cbr\u003eand my favorite basketball team \u003cbr\u003eand asked you to come visit me in Cleveland\u003cbr\u003eor send your autograph. In the second one \u003cbr\u003eI thanked you for your responsible citizenship. \u003cbr\u003eI hope you are proud of me too.\u003cbr\u003eMom said you made being black beautiful again\u003cbr\u003ebut that was before someone killed Trayvon. \u003cbr\u003eAfter that came a sadness so big it made everyone\u003cbr\u003elook the same. It was a long time before we could\u003cbr\u003ego outside again. Mr. President it took one whole day\u003cbr\u003efor me to die and even though I'm twelve and not afraid of the dark\u003cbr\u003eI didn't know there could be so much of it\u003cbr\u003eor so many other boys here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Zaria, Nigeria, HAFIZAH AUGUSTUS GETER is an author and agent whose poetry and prose have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLongreads\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351612408057,"sku":"9780819579812","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bjdtKzJpWWtkZHhsdzBXWnVubmZsQT09.webp?v=1769800637","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/un-american-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}