{"product_id":"tender-headed-paperback","title":"Tender Headed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOlatunde Osinaike\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this dynamic debut collection, Nigerian American poet Osinaike unpacks ideas of masculinity with playful musicality . . . Acutely attuned to poetic lineage, Osinaike cites established poets Yona Harvey, Ladan Osman, and Morgan Parker, setting a context for his own new and versatile voice.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe irony of transformation often is that we mistake it to have occurred long before it does. \u003cem\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/em\u003e takes its time in asserting the realization that growth remains ever ahead of you. Examining the themes of Black identity, accountability, and narration, we encounter a series of revealing snapshots into the role language plays in chiseling possibility and its rigid command of depiction. Olatunde Osinaike's startling debut sorts through the many-minded masks behind Black masculinity. At its center lies an inquiry about the puzzling nature of relationships, how ceaseless wonder can be in its challenge of a truth. In the name of music and self-identity, the speaker weaves their way through fault and how it amends Black life in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is demonstrated best in how the demanding, yet vulnerable tone for the collection is set in \"Men Like Me,\" its restless opening poem. Here, we find the speaker reciting a chronicle of generational neglect from men that became him also. Earnest and sharp, there is a beauty in seeing a poet not shy away from both the melancholy and resolve of rescripting their path while cherishing their steps and missteps along the way. This collection is a panel aching of fathers, sons, uncles, grandfathers, all of whom would do well to join in and confront shared privileges that are typically curtailed or altogether avoided in conversation. \u003cem\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/em\u003e entrusts the heart to be a compass, insisting on a journey unto itself and a melodic detour toward tenderness precise with its own footing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from the West Side of Chicago, \u003cb\u003eOlatunde Osinaike\u003c\/b\u003e is a Nigerian American poet and software developer. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/i\u003e, selected by Camille Rankine for the 2022 National Poetry Series. He is the winner of the 2019 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, a 2019 Frontier Poetry Industry Prize, and honorable mention for the 2019 \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e Emerging Writer's Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets, New Poetry from the Midwest, Kweli Journal, Wildness, Southeast Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He lives in Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695943782463,"sku":"9781636141411","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/b5ccec60c210c115507a520926d294a0.webp?v=1765005643","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/tender-headed-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}