{"product_id":"a-toast-in-the-house-of-friends-paperback","title":"A Toast in the House of Friends - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAkilah Oliver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Don't expect sense from these poems, in which grief, politics, literary theory, and sexuality interweave. But do expect language surprise and beautiful metaphors. . . . When [Akilah] Oliver presents her experiences in metaphor-rich language, the reader feels what she feels: incredible loss, infinite pain.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"An extraordinary gift for everyone.\"--Alice Notley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for her son, Oluchi McDonald (1982-2003), Akilah Oliver's poems incorporate prose, theory, and lyric performance into a powerful testimony of loss and longing. In their journey through the borderlands of sorrow, they grapple with violence, find expression in chants, and, like the graffiti she analyzes, become a place of public and artistic memorial. \"If memory is the act of bearing witness,\" she writes, \"then the dream is a friend driving us somewhere.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkilah Oliver \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003ethe she said dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of the PEN\/Beyond Margins Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she currently lives in Brooklyn and curates the Monday Night Reading Series at the Poetry Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkilah Oliver is the author of the she said dialogues, recipient of the PEN Beyond Margins Award. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she has served as artist-in-residence at Beyond Baroque, curated the Poetry Project's Monday Night Reading Series, and taught at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program. She currently lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53463443177779,"sku":"9781566892223","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/ADCYxcGzD9781566892223_9ea4c4b3-1b93-49cb-8931-319439a1978d.webp?v=1781613846","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/a-toast-in-the-house-of-friends-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}