{"product_id":"9780393609332","title":"Best Barbarian: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize\u003cbr\u003e  Winner of the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003e  Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry\u003cbr\u003e  A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award–winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity—climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss.\u003c\/strong\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","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013225300208,"sku":"9780393609332","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393609332_p0.jpg?v=1763697775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393609332","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}