{"product_id":"use-trouble-9780252075988","title":"Use Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful new poems from one of America's most revered poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS), 2013. Author is a recipient of the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Poetry Society of America, 2008.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This virtuosic, symphonic, embracive collection is a memoir, a reader's notebook, a professor's lesson plan, a family scrapbook, and a poet's book of gratitude.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Expansive, eloquent volume in which Harper locates and contacts his artistic ancestors in verse that is as richly textured as it is troubling.”--\u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A splendid hit.\"--\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An amazingly rich and raw chronicle of family, friends, history, and creativity, \u003ci\u003eUse Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e is Michael S. Harper at the pinnacle of success and the depths of blues. This is poetry that goes way back into a lifetime of observation at the crossroads, of Robert Johnson-like deals with the devil, of writing through passion and pain, all with a sly wicked eye for seeing what needs knowing and telling. Harper uses the wisdom of his elders to transform trouble into his own hard-edged art, a soaring retrospective of personal witnessing.\"--Thadious M. Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eGames of Property\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"From tragic meditations on American public life and history to searingly perceptive ruminations on the griefs and epiphanies of a private soul, Michael S. Harper uses trouble to illuminate and document his complicated life's journey as a son, father, poet, American, and black man. His perceptions of trouble wind, float, and burn through the mind in a way that is echoed in the lines and forms of the poems themselves, forcing and allowing us as readers ever closer to the actual processes of poetic vision and interpretation.\"--Anthony Walton, author of \u003ci\u003eMississippi: An American Journey\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Vintage Book Of African American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400482726231,"sku":"9780252075988","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252075988.jpg?v=1730470796","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/use-trouble-9780252075988","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}