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In tones at once laden and magically transforming, he self-consciously plots his own Great Migration: \"if you see me dancing a twos step\/I'm sending a starless code\/we're escaping everywhere.\" These are poems to be read aloud.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50201801621777,"sku":"CIN1556595735G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037129900305,"sku":"NIN9781556595738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52340891877649,"sku":"NLS9781556595738","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1556595735.jpg?v=1751275504"},{"product_id":"river-hymns-book-tyree-daye-9780983300847","title":"River Hymns","description":"Winner of the 2017 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize, \u003ci\u003eRiver Hymns\u003c\/i\u003e invites the reader into the complex lineage of the values, contradictions, and secrets of a southern family. These poems reflect on the rich legacy of a young black man's ancestry: what to use, what to leave behind, and what haunts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369884258577,"sku":"CIN0983300844G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52685915193617,"sku":"NLS9780983300847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0983300844.jpg?v=1751267150"},{"product_id":"river-hymns-book-tyree-daye-9780983300854","title":"River Hymns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tyree Daye is a poet of extraordinary ability and surprise. I find new music to delight in every time I come back to this book. I encounter new ways to think about family and community, new ways to wrestle with my own landscape and legacy.\"--Gabrielle Calvocoressi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2017 American Poetry Review\/Honickman First Book Prize, River Hymns invites the reader into the complex lineage of the values, contradictions, and secrets of a southern family. These poems reflect on the rich legacy of a young black man's ancestry: what to use, what to leave behind, and what haunts. And Tyree Daye can write the blues one moment and conjure great humor the next, as when he says, \"I knew God was a man because he put a baby in Mary without her permission.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \"Southern Silence\":\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI've only trusted\u003cbr\u003e four white people in my life\u003cbr\u003e my mother showed me\u003cbr\u003e the ropes early I'm afraid\u003cbr\u003e to untie myself get down\u003cbr\u003e from this branch\u003cbr\u003e even the Jesus on the wall of the church old and swaying\u003cbr\u003e has something\u003cbr\u003e up his sun-touched sleeves\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTyree Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. His poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Nashville Review, Four Way Review, and Ploughshares. He was awarded the Amy Clampitt Residency for 2018 and The Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. 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Through sprawling poems, the town of Youngsville, North Carolina, where Daye's family has lived for the last 200 years, is reclaimed as \"Ritual House.\" Here, \"every cousin aunt uncle ghost\" is welcome. Daye invokes real and imagined people, the ancestral dead, land, snakes, and chickens, to create a black town on a hill. Including dreams, letters, revised rental agreements, and \"a little museum in the here \u0026amp; after,\" where collaged images appear besides documents from Daye's ancestors--census records, marriage licenses, and WWII Draft Registration cards--the collection asks if the past can be a portal to the future, the present a catalyst for the past. \u003ci\u003ea little bump in the earth\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to love someone, someplace, even as it changes, dies right in front of your eyes. 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