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Michal 'MJ' Jones - Of Blue & Bone, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Of Blue & Bone

Poems

Av Michal 'MJ' Jones

253 kr

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Winner of the 2026 Cave Canem Angela Jackson PrizeThe second collection from acclaimed poet Michal "MJ" Jones, of blue & bone reckons with the Hart family murder-suicide. On March 26, 2018, white wives Jen and Sarah Hart drove themselves and their six adopted Black children—Markis, Hannah, Devonte, Jeremiah, Abigail, and Ciera Rose—off a cliff in Mendocino County, California. Before this tragedy and while the families of origin battled to keep their children, the Harts evaded culpability for over a decade of child abuse, protected under the guise of innocence and privilege. A collection of documentary poetics, of blue & bone engages persona, ode, and lyrical poetry to reflect on the question How could this have happened? Jones carefully studies the nuances and intersections of race, queerness, and class crucial to this question, employing delicate and powerful language to explore a devastating tragedy and attempt to make sense out of monstrous devastation. Vulnerable and raw, this collection cuts deeply through blue and bone.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-15
  • Mått: 178 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Vikt: 454 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 112
  • Förlag: Northwestern University Press
  • ISBN: 9798899482151
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Michal 'MJ' Jones is a poet, parent, and literary editor in Oakland, California. Their debut collection, Hood Vacations, won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of the chapbook Soft Armor. A finalist of the National Poetry Series, Jones has received fellowships from the Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

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"This book is full of surprises and rich with humanity. of blue bone will break your heart and open it." —Angela Jackson, fifth Illinois Poet Laureate"Michal 'MJ' Jones's of blue & bone is harrowing and honest. In an era where facts are undone to avoid truth, Jones, at risk to their own psyche, utilizes imagination to vivify six children whose lives went unseen. of blue & bone won't allow such erasure, connecting personal history and American history in a way so real it will make you gasp. Jones writes, 'To call it a crash is a silence,' and they are right, this event was no crash, it was the intersection of both personal history and an American history that cannot be repaired but must be redressed. Histories that repeat in tragic variegation. It takes extraordinary skill as well as courage to write such a book. Jones has dared to raise their voice to raise these children, in language so arresting we too must be courageous enough to face what has been lost, now lifted from the waves." —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World"Markis. Jeremiah. Devonte. Ciara Rose. Abigail. Hannah. Michal "MJ" Jones' of blue & bone is a smoldering memorial to six Black children who were adopted and murdered by two women whose whiteness shielded them from suspicion until it was too late. Their story haunts this disturbing, churning pyre of poems in search of the love, restitution and solace they were denied before their short lives were taken in 2018. This excavation into the monstrous and unspeakable maw bristles and claws its way toward a language of witness and resolve." —Tyehimba Jess, Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and author of Olio

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