{"product_id":"9780983547846","title":"Waiting For A Spaceship","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. African \u0026amp; African American Studies. In WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP, J. Otis Powell‽ pens a deep acknowledgement to both the pain of language and its potential for liberation. In these elegant and absorbing poems, Powell‽ plays soloist to a backdrop of jazz rhythm, capable of moving from the elegiac to the celebratory in one shift of tone, expressing the haunted nature of American life: \"Ghosts hitch rides on bodies \/ move inside souls.\" The lyrical improvisation of his lines moves us simultaneously closer to moments of insight, haunting, and deliverance. \"Ivory bones at the bottom of the Atlantic \/ Ghosts dance to water music nobody composed.\" To read WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP is to find deep recognition with openness and ferocity. His poems describe how the moment of poetic expression arrives in daily life at soul level. This is a poetry of necessity.","brand":"Spout Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035648704752,"sku":"9780983547846","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983547846_p0.jpg?v=1763886407","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983547846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}