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Worldly Things

Name: Worldly Things
ISBN: 9781571317636

Michael Kleber-Diggs,

English
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Worldly Things

Michael Kleber-Diggs,

About this book

Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry

"Sometimes, " Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, "everything reduces to circles and lines."

In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics—couple with moments of wrenching grief—a father's life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother's waist; Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor.

But Worldly Things refuses to "offer allegiance" to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. "Let's create folklore side-by-side, " he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. "All of us want, " after all, "our share of light, and just enough rainfall."

Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.

Additional Recognition:

A New York Times Book Revie w "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection

A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021"

A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021"

A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection

A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection
An Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection

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