A Fortune for Your Disaster

Poems

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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew.

It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'". It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside - from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs - to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.

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African American

Death, Grief & Loss

Poetry

Themes & Styles

United States

World Literature

Heartfelt

African American Death, Grief & Loss Poetry Themes & Styles United States World Literature Heartfelt

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Hanif is stunning. A language that weaves the politics and pains of living with a tenderness that brings you close to the senses, to the intricacies of power dynamics. Not taking stress but giving shape to the many. layers of seeing/being. And Hanif's voice is an agitator and a balm, relentless and soft.

Landscape of the prices of feeling

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