{"product_id":"indecency-paperback","title":"Indecency - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Phillip Reed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndecency\u003c\/i\u003e is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful--the author unpacks his intimacies, weaponizing poetry to take on masculinity, sexuality, exploitation, and the prison industrial complex and unmask all the failures of the structures into which society sorts us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. His work appears in \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObsidian\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. The author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eA History of Flamboyance\u003c\/i\u003e (YesYes Books, 2016), he has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation and the Conversation Literary Festival. He lives in St. Louis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2018)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725467291711,"sku":"9781566895149","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/11c87dd5b3706f6dba88495f80741f61.webp?v=1765106672","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/indecency-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}