{"product_id":"im-always-so-serious-9781956046045","title":"I'm Always so Serious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eI’m Always so Serious\u003c\/em\u003e is brilliant.”\u003c\/strong\u003e —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for \u003cem\u003eLighthead\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\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,'” \u003cem\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk\u003c\/em\u003e is recast with characters from \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey. \u003c\/em\u003eIn 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":"Karisma Price","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48287134155003,"sku":"9781956046045","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f4cdfdf5-0f33-4b63-955b-9fc5cdecdb8e.jpg?v=1771575147","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/im-always-so-serious-9781956046045","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}