{"product_id":"9781956046045","title":"I'm Always so Serious","description":"Author: Karisma Price\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781956046045\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 23 May 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 92\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm Always so Seriousis brilliant.\" -Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award forLighthead\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone \"Autocorrects 'Nigga' to Night,'\" If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence-\"We know that mostly everything around us \/ is measured in blood.\"-but there is also immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a book \"so dark you have no other option but to call it \/ precious.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46875641741470,"sku":"ADS-9781956046045","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781956046045.jpg?v=1779754390","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781956046045","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}