{"product_id":"9781571315250","title":"Demos: An American Multitude","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s newest collection arrives brimming with personal and political histories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “‘You tell me how I was born what I am,’” demands Naka-Hasebe Kingsley—of himself, of the reader, of the world. The poems of \u003ci\u003eDēmos: An American Multitude\u003c\/i\u003e seek answers in the Haudenosaunee story of The Lake and Her children; in the scope of a .243 aimed at a pregnant doe; in the Dōgen poem jotted on a napkin by his obaasan; in a flag burning in a church parking lot. Here, Naka-Hasebe Kingsley places multiracial displacement, bridging disparate experiences with taut, percussive language that will leave readers breathless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With astonishing formal range, \u003ci\u003eDēmos\u003c\/i\u003e also documents the intolerance that dominates American society. What can we learn from mapping the genealogy of a violent and loud collective? How deeply do anger, violence, and oppression run in the blood? From adapted Punnett squares to Biblical epigraphs to the ghastly comment section of a local news website, \u003ci\u003eDēmos\u003c\/i\u003e diagrams surviving America as an other-ed American—and it refuses to flinch from the forces that would see that multitude erased.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDēmos\u003c\/i\u003e is a resonant proclamation of identity and endurance from one of the most intriguing new voices in American letters—a voice singing “long on America as One \/ body but many parts.”","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064800624880,"sku":"9781571315250","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781571315250_p0.jpg?v=1763795878","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781571315250","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}