{"product_id":"quiet-poems-9780593535646","title":"Quiet: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA black British poet making her thrilling American debut explores the importance of \"quiet\" in producing forms of community, resistance, and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Bulley's stunning poems draw you in with their melodious versatility, intellect and dexterity; [they] perfectly embody the political through the personal.\"--Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does one encounter meaning amid so many kinds of noise? What is quiet when it isn't silence? Where does quiet exist--and what liberating potential might it hold? These poems dwell on ideas of black interiority, intimacy, and selfhood, and they celebrate as fiercely as they mourn. With a metaphysical edge and a formal restlessness attuned to both the sonics and the inadequacies of language, \u003ci\u003eQuiet\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the tension between the impulse to guard one's inner life and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, \"your silence will not protect you.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and artist. An alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and recipient of an Eric Gregory award, Victoria has held residencies in the US, Brazil and the V\u0026amp;A Museum in London. Her debut pamphlet, \u003ci\u003eGirl B\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017. She is the recipient of a Techne scholarship for doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eQuiet\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631449313554,"sku":"9780593535646","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5cd448f-73a8-48ca-a825-251a8398e573.jpg?v=1732772836","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quiet-poems-9780593535646","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}