{"product_id":"best-barbarian-poems-hardcover","title":"Best Barbarian: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoger Reeves\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eBest Barbarian\u003c\/em\u003e roam across the literary and social landscape, from \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the police have killed a Black man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaring and formally elegant, \u003cem\u003eBest Barbarian\u003c\/em\u003e asks the reader: \"Who has not been an entryway shuddering in the wind \/ Of another's want, a rose nailed to some dark longing and bled?\" Reeves extends his inquiry into the work of writers who have come before, conversing with--and sometimes contradicting--Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Sappho, Dante, and Aimé Césaire, among others. Expanding the tradition of poetry to reach from Gilgamesh and the \u003cem\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e to Drake and Beyoncé, Reeves adds his voice to a long song that seeks to address itself \"only to freedom.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eBest Barbarian\u003c\/em\u003e asks the reader to stay close as it plunges into catastrophe and finds surprising moments of joy and intimacy. This fearless, musical, and oracular collection announces Roger Reeves as an essential voice in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767433658656,"sku":"9780393609332","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/df8a4cc2e29bb54caf07bc0c6c28738e.webp?v=1780310790","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/best-barbarian-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}