{"product_id":"worldly-things","title":"Worldly Things","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Sometimes,\" writes Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, \"everything reduces to circles and lines.\"\u003c\/b\u003e In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love--teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics--couple with moments of wrenching grief--a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But \u003ci\u003eWorldly Things \u003c\/i\u003erefuses to \"offer allegiance\" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. \"Let's create folklore side-by-side,\" he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. \"All of us want,\" after all, \"our share of light, and just enough rainfall.\" Sonorous and measured, the poems of \u003ci\u003eWorldly Things \u003c\/i\u003eoffer needed guidance on ways forward--toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949091209405,"sku":"BS-TC0-550753","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781639550753-HD.jpg?v=1785968188","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/worldly-things","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}