{"title":"Jonah Mixon-Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the thought-provoking poetry of Jonah Mixon-Webster, exploring themes of identity, language, and social justice with striking imagery and rhythm. A vital voice for our times, start your discovery now.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stereo-type-book-jonah-mixon-webster-9780141996370","title":"Stereo(TYPE)","description":"The award-winning poet's darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt system  Lyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon-Webster's debut aims its sights at the words and images that shape us and the corrupt forces that stand in the way of our freedom. Stereo(TYPE) is a reckoning and a force. It is a revision of our most sacred mythologies - and a work of documentary poetry reporting from Mixon-Webster's hometown of Flint, Michigan, where untainted tap water is still not guaranteed and the legacies of racist policies persist.    Challenging stereotypes through scenes scattered with satire, violence, and the extreme vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster explores the places where space and body, race and region and sexuality and class meet and intersect. He invents visual\/sonic forms, recasts poems as FAQs and transcripts, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies. Interrogating language and the ways we wield it as both sword and shield, Stereo(TYPE) is a rapturous collection of vital and beautiful poems.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49580566380817,"sku":"GOR012024526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739098849553,"sku":"NGR9780141996370","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52749651804433,"sku":"GOR012935343","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0141996374.jpg?v=1751422070"},{"product_id":"stereo-type-book-jonah-mixon-webster-9781934103807","title":"Stereo(type)","description":"Poetry. African \u0026amp; African American Studies. Newcomer and Sawtooth Poetry Prize winner Jonah Mixon-Webster urgently considers the poetics of space and body, of race and region, of sexuality and class in the present day-- the water crisis in Flint, Michigan; systemic racism--within the architecture of the current collective crisis and imagination. To take up space in an experimental way, through lyric, sound and conceptual art, this collection activates the contentious trope of The Real Nigga as zombie (embodiment of the thing already dead), linguistic substrata (the basis and site of identity through language formation and synthesis), and as precursor for colonizing archetypes (in the Jungian sense--an unconscious, collectively inherited idea that develops into socially constructed and consciously typified symbols of human identity and function). He challenges current stereotypes through the character's experience and through mythology; Now this nigga Niggaphus was the darkest 'mortal' anybody had ever seen in Greece.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49810376360209,"sku":"CIN1934103802G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934103802.jpg?v=1750835943"},{"product_id":"stereo-type-book-jonah-mixon-webster-9781524711948","title":"Stereo(TYPE)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePEN America Literary Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region, sexuality and class. \u003ci\u003eStereo(TYPE)\u003c\/i\u003e, his debut collection of poetry, is a reckoning and a force, a revision of our most sacred mythologies, and a work of documentary reporting from Mixon-Webster's hometown of Flint, Michigan, where clean tap water remains an uncertainty and the aftermath of racist policies persist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChallenging stereotypes through scenes that scatter with satire, violence, and the extreme vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster invents visual\/sonic forms, conceptualizes poems as transcripts and frequently asked questions, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies, deconstructing the very foundations America is built on. Interrogating language and the ways we wield it as both sword and shield, \u003ci\u003eStereo(TYPE)\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind, rapturous collection of vital and beautiful poems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51034162790673,"sku":"NIN9781524711948","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52718587248913,"sku":"CIN1524711942VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52962413543697,"sku":"CIN1524711942LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1524711942.jpg?v=1750828783"},{"product_id":"promise-threat-book-jonah-mixon-webster-9780593803066","title":"Promise\/Threat","description":"\u003cb\u003eAfter storming the scene with \u003ci\u003eStereo(TYPE),\u003c\/i\u003e the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return-with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I'm coming to you live,\" Jonah Mixon-Webster announces early on in \u003ci\u003ePromise\/Threat,\u003c\/i\u003e \"from the corner of Shit Blvd. and Out o' Luck St. \/ with my monkey paws.\" So begins a three-part journey of a troubled rebirth, one that ushers the reader through all the torment of a Dantean comedy as it climbs unsteadily from darkness to light, navigating an internalized landscape that evokes the Flint, Michigan, of the poet's youth.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the long central sequence, \"Territory,\" Mixon-Webster sets the reader in a mirror hall of dreams, where one's nemesis (or one's self) is always lurking around the corner. Violences of the waking life trickle into the narrator's sleep as he flees from vision to vision, \"picking fruit in one dream and eating it in the next.\" In the book's third and final section, as the poet begins to wake, he finds that the \"real poem is the life I'm writing.\" Mixon-Webster's musings turn to love and the often-destructive desires it provokes in us as he grapples with how to carry the burden of a past that threatens to sabotage the future.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These are seeking, supple poems whose forms adapt to contain their transfigured images. What emerges in this daring second collection is a surreal and haunting portrait of life in modern America, where pitfalls hide in every promise.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52694644359441,"sku":"NGR9780593803066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53175425728785,"sku":"NIN9780593803066","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-jonah-mixon-webster.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}