{"product_id":"song-of-gray-9781885635952","title":"Song of Gray","description":"\u003ci\u003eSong of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e approaches Black experience by clarifying the concrete worlds that exist between humanity and objecthood. Asha Futterman renders this in-between space as it reveals itself in performance: in a contemporary performance workshop, at an audition, in a production of \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the dailiness of the YMCA, her porch, the walk to the train. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These poems build new logic systems. Futterman stands at her grandmother's grave and proclaims, \"how powerful how dense and naked how inaccurate.\" With quiet, deadpan, and piercing language, \u003ci\u003eSong of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e offers earnest, felt relationships to race, empathy, pleasure, and nonsense. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There wasn't a sunrise \/ just gray \/ then brighter gray.\" In \u003ci\u003eSong of Gray\u003c\/i\u003e, blackness is not definite--it is an ambivalent hole as much as an area of hope. Blackness is a song of gray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsha Futterman\u003c\/b\u003e is an actor and poet from Chicago. She holds an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. Her chapbook \u003ci\u003eempathy \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by The Song Cave in 2024. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Bennington Review, Conduit\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Journal. \u003c\/i\u003eShe currently teaches children in Brooklyn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705351504146,"sku":"9781885635952","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_175c4338-6801-4aef-8f5c-645182c21de7.jpg?v=1762346021","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/song-of-gray-9781885635952","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}