{"product_id":"to-be-named-something-else-9781682262283","title":"To Be Named Something Else","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of New York Public Library's Best Books, 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Be Named Something Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage--both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix's debut collection, in the words of series judge Patricia Smith: \"enlivens the everyday--the everyday miraculous, the everyday hallelujah, the numbing everyday love, the everyday risk of just being Black and living. There is absolutely nowhere these poems aren't--we're dancing and sweating through our clothes, terminating a pregnancy in a chilled room of white and silver, finally gettin' those brows threaded and nails did, practicing gettin' the Holy Ghost, sending folks to their rest, having babies, listening carefully to the lessons of elders, and sometimes even talking back. . . . \u003ci\u003eTo Be Named Something Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of reason and reckoning, substance and shadow. It's tender and wide-aloud and just about everything we need right now, when both reason and reckoning are in such woefully short supply.\" Phenix's full-throated poetry, with its \"superlative combination of formalism and funk,\" is assuredly \u003ci\u003esomething else\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shaina Phenix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.93w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682262283","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439187431561,"sku":"9781682262283","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_af94d4fa-01cf-4b3a-aaa5-2685aa863042.jpg?v=1716269263","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/to-be-named-something-else-9781682262283","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}