{"product_id":"the-wickedest-9780374616618","title":"The Wickedest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and one of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Poetry Books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is] alive in the way poetry must be.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Atmospheric and intoxicating, lyrical and inviting, \u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is a heady night in the dance, and Caleb Femi is the life of the literary party.\" --Candice Carty-Williams, author of \u003ci\u003eQueenie\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to the Wickedest, the longest running house party in the South London shoob scene, always held at an undisclosed inner-city spot. You better hope you have the address: this is for locals only. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweaty and cinematic, pulsing with rhythm and heat, every moment here--from one-on-one intimacies to the swell of the party's collective roar--is refracted in Caleb Femi's writing. Ingeniously blending conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, \u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern epic, told as a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFemi, a multi-hyphenate sensation and the author of \u003ci\u003ePoor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was called \"a landmark debut for British poetry\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, is a generational storyteller and scene setter. But \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWickedest\u003c\/i\u003e does more than tell the story of one party; Femi uses the experience of nightlife to document the broader contexts surrounding the shoobs--the marginalization of low-income communities of color, the red tape that bars those on the edges from already shrinking communal space. Still, the party goes on. \u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is a respite and a reckoning, a community of desire, care, and resistance that carries on long past the night's end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caleb Femi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MCD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.83h x 5.24w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374616618","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43369804660873,"sku":"9780374616618","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_da25887e-e7ac-4fd2-af5f-68126c4839bc.jpg?v=1739857719","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-wickedest-9780374616618","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}