{"product_id":"silencer-poems-marcus-wicker","title":"Silencer: Poems;  Marcus Wicker","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\" data-testid=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eA suburban park, church, a good job, a cocktail party for the literati: to many, these sound like safe places, but for a young black man these insular spaces don’t keep out the news—and the actual threat—of gun violence and police brutality, or the biases that keeps body, property, and hope in the crosshairs. Continuing conversations begun by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilencer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esings out the dangers of unspoken taboos present on quiet Midwestern cul-de-sacs and in stifling professional settings, the dangers in closing the window on “a rainbow coalition of cops doing calisthenics around\/a six-foot, three-hundred-fifty-pound man, choked back into the earth for what\/looked a lot, to me, like sport.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, the language and cadences of hip-hop and academia meet prayer—these poems are crucibles, from which emerge profound allegories and subtle elegies, sharp humor and incisive critiques.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eSeptember 5, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__genres\" data-testid=\"genresList\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eMarcus Wicker is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e's Miller Audio Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His first collection\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaybe the Saddest Thing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Harper Perennial), a National Poetry Series winner, was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. Wicker's poems have appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e. His second book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSilencer\u003c\/em\u003e—also an Image Award finalist—was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2017 and won the Society of Midland Authors Award, as well as the Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for New Voices. Marcus teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis, and he is the poetry editor of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouthern Indiana Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885568815426,"sku":"","price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/silenc.jpg?v=1680542492","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/silencer-poems-marcus-wicker","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}