{"product_id":"im-always-so-serious-paperback","title":"I'm Always So Serious - 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\u003eKarisma Price\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eI'm Always so Serious\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e --Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarisma 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, '\" \u003cem\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk\u003c\/em\u003e is recast with characters from \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarisma Price\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection \"I'm Always so Serious\" (Sarabande Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Four Way Review, Wildness, The Adroit Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and New York University, was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and awarded The 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from The Poetry Foundation. She is from New Orleans, LA, and holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Tulane University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50405743755501,"sku":"9781956046045","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/im-always-so-serious-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}