{"product_id":"not-your-mamas-melting-pot-9781935218494","title":"Not Your Mama's Melting Pot","description":"\"From jump, there was such sonic, emotional, and intellectual drive to these poems, that I couldn't resist--why would I want to--the pull of Benjam?n Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's vision and sensibility. Verve and ?lan are words I might use, but they lack sufficient verve and ?lan. And if I wrote, 'his future is bright, ' I'd be wrong--his future is here, and this book is as much fire as I can ask for.\" --Bob Hicok, author of \u003ci\u003eHold\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003c\/b\u003e is not the Ben Kingsley best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, having not acted since his third-grade debut as the Undertaker in Music Man. Affrilachian author and Kundiman alum, Ben is currently the 22nd Tickner Writing Fellow and recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His next collection, \u003ci\u003eColonize Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming with Saturnalia in 2019, followed by \u003ci\u003eDemos\u003c\/i\u003e, with Milkweed Editions in 2020. Peep his recent work in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2017\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. Natalie Diaz), \u003ci\u003eNative Voices: Indigenous Poetry from North America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProud to Be: Writing by American Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the journals \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Culture and Researc\u003c\/i\u003eh, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493228941586,"sku":"9781935218494","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c0a33c2-1ce1-4b47-b6ff-18a66ac3b606.jpg?v=1730638814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/not-your-mamas-melting-pot-9781935218494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}