{"product_id":"stages-poems","title":"Stages: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Tramaine Suubi is a visionary love poet, and \u003cem\u003estages \u003c\/em\u003emakes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, embodied tenderness is a force capable of moving us \"beyond the binary.\" As it journeys from personhood to \"people-hood,\" Suubi's music shimmers and flashes and connects.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003eMary Szybist, \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Award winner for\u003cem\u003e Incarnadine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book presents a young person seeing the world with fresh, yet discerning eyes. In \u003cem\u003estages\u003c\/em\u003e, Suubi is seeking centeredness in an unstable world. From personal journeys throughout and between continents, Suubi asserts the freedom to be themselves, on their own terms. \u003cem\u003estages\u003c\/em\u003e is a thoughtful, rigorous and heartfelt collection of a loving voice.\" -- Tracie Morris, author of \u003cem\u003ehuman\/nature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Tramaine Suubi's newest book, \u003cem\u003eStages\u003c\/em\u003e, crafts new orbits to the oldest questions. As the poems circumnavigate homecomings, desires, and reclamations, the relay baton of sound and syntax passes seamlessly, always ready to hand the reader a line of true substance, a line of unexpected grace, a line of hard-won delight. Suubi insists on playfulness as a site of maturation and love as a protest against multiple erasures. And like celestial bodies, these poems can transfix, predict, and guide one through both dying and newborn light, reminding the reader, \"civility is a performance you savage in your dreams.\" -- Steven Leyva, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Opposite of Cruelty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"So rarely do we come across a book like s\u003cem\u003etages\u003c\/em\u003e, which mirrors how a day, an hour, a moment--can engage every layer of our being. This collection will dazzle you with swirling musings which authentically ground and unground our desires, histories, and identities.\" -- Marisa Tirado, author of \u003cem\u003eSelena Didn't Know Spanish Either\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Once, we are looking at a gaggle of geese punctuating the gradient sky, meanwhile, elsewhere we are in Kampala, in Suubi's poem. Suubi navigates between the outwardly observed and the deeply internal, and the readers are at a crossroads, sometimes witnessing, other times noting the mechanical dance of our small, exiled lives. Suubi's sharp, often unblinking, gaze renders each detail with striking precision. What a collection, what a book, what a way to reinvent what African poetry can do, what it will do. A second coming that deserves all the praise for its excellence.\" -- Adedayo Agarau, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Years of Blood\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritically acclaimed writer Tramaine Suubi follows up her debut \u003cem\u003ephases, \u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cem\u003estages\u003c\/em\u003e. This powerful meditation, inspired by Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems alluding to the history of how it came to be and its effects on each human life. Readers will discover poems exploring everything from the gimmicks of capitalism to the false promises of tranquility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is another brilliant collection that will only reinforce Suubi as a rising star of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amistad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44121160613987,"sku":"9780063344952","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0621\/7515\/0179\/files\/imageloader_7efd0d4c-4ddd-4fef-9386-725955e563c5.jpg?v=1776346649","url":"https:\/\/redricebooks.com\/products\/stages-poems","provider":"Red Rice Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}