{"product_id":"original-kink-9781943977802","title":"original kink","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eoriginal kink\u003c\/em\u003e, Jubi Arriola-Headley explores kink as mythscape of promised pleasure, lush and lustral, kink as Godzilla's desire for softness and the speaker gone \"starburst,\" kink as \"the sun-soaked \/ surface of impossible kick\" and \"something loose enough \/ to dance in.\" At once soliloquy, praise song, and injunction, \u003cem\u003eoriginal kink\u003c\/em\u003e divines the brutal offices and beauteous comforts of syntax, street corners, and superheroes as sites for Black and queer (un)becomings. Accompanied by Eve, Isaac Newton, and a cotillion of daddies, Arriola-Headley writes into pleasure's beyond, questioning \"What it must be \/ to presume \u003cem\u003elife\u003c\/em\u003e \/ to presume \u003cem\u003etomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e.\" These poems \"glutton at spring's source, \/ ever lovedrunk on \/ the insistent gush of you,\" and create a dazzling, multiple \"We.\" These poems enjoin the reader--and themselves--to \"Be better \/ than bitter. Be roiling in joy. Be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArriola-Headley, Jubi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jubi Arriola-Headley (he\/him) is a black queer poet, storyteller, \u0026amp; first-generation United Statesian whose work explores themes of manhood, vulnerability, rage, tenderness \u0026amp; joy. He's a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow \u0026amp; holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Miami. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Ambit, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, People's World, \u0026amp; Southern Humanities Review. Jubi \u0026amp; his husband split their time between South Florida \u0026amp; Guatemala, where he hopes to pick up enough Spanish to learn what his in-laws are saying about him.","brand":"Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629605458194,"sku":"9781943977802","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fca17c8f-2f72-4ce5-9421-443b2a78a72e.jpg?v=1732732414","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/original-kink-9781943977802","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}