{"product_id":"i-be-but-i-aint-9781936919390","title":"I Be, But I Ain't","description":"Poetry. African \u0026amp; African American Studies. \"Incandescent in her brutality \u0026amp; neon truth, Aziza Barnes writes her way into an urgent Black, wide \u0026amp; beautiful in its scream. You will find lightning here. You will discover a bruised constellation exploding in a vast black body. Her syllables devour the sweet hurt \u0026amp; harm of their own naked limbs \u0026amp; offer us a generous feast. Aziza Barnes is her own revolution, her own galactic orbit \u0026amp; oracle. She writes, 'In my own home I attempt nightly\/to eat my body alive.' These poems suck their teeth \u0026amp; know their own desperate bones. She grieves, 'i done walked with a name i couldn't shake \u0026amp; now i gone.' Shaped and forged in powerful consciousness, Aziza Barnes possesses a gifted voice that will always be needed and necessary. The poems of this extraordinary debut sweat themselves Black with imagination and desire. In I BE, BUT I AIN'T, Barnes achieves both freedom \u0026amp; forgiveness in an ache that persists infinitely in its intelligence \u0026amp; intuition. Listen to her: 'I am ungloved in a sabbath of spit.'\"--Rachel Eliza Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Aziza Barnes's I BE, BUT I AIN'T is a powerful debut that refuses to stroke you soft or angle to be your best friend. Instead, these poems revel in the menagerie of their own discomfort, and ours. Barnes's is a wild imagination and her poems an ill grammar akin to Jayne Cortez's percussive surrealism of the body. Want a lolly pop? You won't get that here. Her poetic is challenging and sophisticated, in a language that refuses to assuage.\"--Dawn Lundy Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10331920\"\u003eAziza Barnes\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e YesYes Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936919390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936919397\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44449671413997,"sku":"1936919397","price":17.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f660faca-a301-40d3-85e7-ab94d29aa93b.jpg?v=1700312756","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/i-be-but-i-aint-9781936919390","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}