{"title":"Raised Voices Ser","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"some-of-the-light-book-tim-z-hernandez-9780807006696","title":"Some of the Light","description":"\u003cb\u003e25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSome of the Light\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering 28 new poems and a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At its core, \u003ci\u003eSome of the Light\u003c\/i\u003e contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, ranging from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic \u003ci\u003econtemplations\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicling the passing days of the pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This latest work by Hernandez reveals a writer whom former US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera calls \"a titan-unafraid to take to the road, get his hands dirty, to fully immerse himself in the world of his subjects.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSome of the Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a part of Beacon Press's Raised Voices poetry series, established in 2021 to raise historically excluded voices and perspectives, and to celebrate poetry's ability to access truths in ways no other form can.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743586984209,"sku":"NGR9780807006696","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51285870280977,"sku":"NIN9780807006696","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816503734545,"sku":"CIN0807006696G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807006696.jpg?v=1751330057"},{"product_id":"antes-que-isla-es-volcan-before-island-is-volcano-book-raquel-salas-rivera-9780807014578","title":"antes que isla es volcán \/ before island is volcano","description":"\u003cb\u003eGold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet- a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Raquel Salas Rivera's star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, \u003ci\u003eantes que isla es volcan\u003c\/i\u003e daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity- one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico's fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable (\"won't you be sorry? \/ won't you wish you had a boss? \/ won't you get restless \/ with all that freedom?\").\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744402809105,"sku":"NGR9780807014578","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50141068689681,"sku":"CIN0807014575G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53148498886929,"sku":"GOR014778736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53483770872081,"sku":"NIN9780807014578","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807014575.jpg?v=1750914405"},{"product_id":"common-grace-book-aaron-caycedo-kimura-9780807015889","title":"Common Grace","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49745391911185,"sku":"NGR9780807015889","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416357634321,"sku":"CIN0807015881VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51695367061777,"sku":"CIN0807015881G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807015881.jpg?v=1751107406"},{"product_id":"migration-letters-book-m-nzadi-keita-9780807008072","title":"Migration Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poetry collection that reflects on intimate aspects of Black history, culture, and identity, revealing an uncommon gaze on working-class Philadelphia from the 1960s to the present day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 55 poems, \u003ci\u003eMigration Letters\u003c\/i\u003e straddles the personal and public with particular, photorealistic detail to identify what, over time, creating a home creates in ourselves. Drawn from her experiences of being born in Philadelphia into a Black family and a Black culture transported from the American South by the Great Migration, M. Nzadi Keita's poetry sparks a profoundly hybrid gaze of the visual and the sensory. Her lyrical fragments and sustained narrative plunge into the unsung aspects of Black culture and explore how Black Americans journey toward joy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Propelled by the conditions that motivated her family's migration north, the poems pull heavily from Keita's place in her family, communities, and the world at large. They testify to her time and circumstances growing up Black in Philadelphia on the periphery of the civil rights and Black Power movements. Each poem builds upon an inheritance of voices- a panoramic perspective of an Easter Sunday service in a Black church gives way to an account of psychic violence in a newly integrated school; the collective voices of a beauty salon's patrons fragment into memories of neighborhoods in North Philadelphia that have faded over time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMigration Letters\u003c\/i\u003e strives to tell a story about Black people that radiates across generations and testifies to a world that, as Lucille Clifton wrote, \"has tried to kill us and has failed.\" They interrogate how one's present begins in the past, what we gain from barriers and boundaries, and what notions of progress energize our journey forward. Keita's poems intimately reveal how Black culture can be inherited and built upon complex relationships where love and pain are inextricably linked.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49747181371665,"sku":"NGR9780807008072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007782256913,"sku":"NIN9780807008072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807008079.jpg?v=1751445745"},{"product_id":"boy-maybe-book-wj-lofton-9780807017821","title":"boy maybe","description":"\u003cb\u003e51 achingly eloquent poems from a young Cave Canem fellow- W. J. Lofton's verses explore Black queer Southern identity, grief, love, and intimacy while enduring and witnessing unfreedom in America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e W. J. Lofton writes vivid, accessible poems that channel the energy, urgency, ambitions, joys, and sorrows of a young Black queer artist. They are about love and flirtation, sweet tea and hot sauce, God and family, life and death, police brutality and extrajudicial killings. His verses honor some of the young lives extinguished by these killings-Breonna Taylor, Kendrick Johnson, Ahmaud Arbery. He also pays tribute to some of the towering figures of Black culture who have come before him-Richard Pryor, Assata Shakur. His style is endlessly propulsive, informed by some of the Harlem Renaissance greats-Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks-but also transforming that rich tradition for the present day.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51598164427025,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51598164656401,"sku":"NIN9780807017821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51598164721937,"sku":"NGR9780807017821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807017825.jpg?v=1751169931"},{"product_id":"idea-of-an-entire-life-the-book-billy-ray-belcourt-9780807022405","title":"The Idea of an Entire Life,The","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Queer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belcourt offers up a powerful meditation on the present as a space where the past and a still-possible utopia collide. Rigorous in research and thought yet accessible in language and imagery, this collection weaves lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments to examine the delicate facets of queer Indigeneity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Belcourt contends with the afterlife of what he calls \"the long twentieth century,\" a period marked by assaults on Indigenous life, and his people's enduring resistance. The poems, sometimes heartbreaking, other times sly and humorous, are marked by the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt's body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of both grief and awe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His third book of poetry and sixth across genres, Billy-Ray Belcourt's \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of an Entire Life\u003c\/i\u003e leaves readers with a vision for queer Indigenous life as it is shaped by a violent history--and yet pulled toward a more flourishing future.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51598180679953,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51598180974865,"sku":"NGR9780807022405","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52542960632081,"sku":"NIN9780807022405","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807022403.jpg?v=1751042626"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/raised-voices-ser-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}