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A Fortune For Your Disaster: Poems Audiobook
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In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'." It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside—from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs—to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.
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“The fast-rising Ohio music journalist’s second book of poems uses pop culture references to animate his corrosively serious, hard-to-forget lines about love, sex, hypocrisy, self-discovery, power, grief, and violence.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“There’s real energy in this book, and there’s also a compelling sense of love, longing, and loss… A deft collection.”
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“When an author’s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, it’s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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About Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, cultural critic, and author, whose books include A Little Devil in America, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us until They Kill Us, was named one of the books of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the National Book Award.