{"product_id":"the-big-book-of-exit-strategies-9781938584244","title":"The Big Book of Exit Strategies","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jamaal May: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection, \u003ci\u003eHum \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), these new poems explore parallel landscapes of the poet's interior and an insidious American condition. Using dark humor that helps illuminate the pains of maturity and loss of imagination, May uncovers language like a skilled archaeologist--digging up bones of the past to expose what lies beneath the surface of the fragile human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom: \"Ask Where I've Been\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk about the tornado of fists.\u003cbr\u003eThe blows landed. If you can\u003cbr\u003ewatch it all--the spit and blood frozen\u003cbr\u003eagainst snow, you can probably tell\u003cbr\u003eI am the too-narrow road winding out\u003cbr\u003eof a crooked city built of laughter, \u003cbr\u003eabandon, feathers and drums.\u003cbr\u003eAsk only if you can watch streetlights bow, \u003cbr\u003ebridges arc, and power lines sag, \u003cbr\u003eand still believe what matters most\u003cbr\u003eis not where I bend\u003cbr\u003ebut where I am growing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamaal May \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, Michigan, where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 Indiana Review Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNER\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. May has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJamaal May is a poet, editor, and filmmaker from Detroit, MI where he taught poetry in public schools and worked as a freelance audio engineer and touring performer. His poetry won the 2013 \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Prize and appears in journals such as \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Ploughshares, The Believer, NER, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Jamaal has earned an MFA from Warren Wilson College as well as fellowships from Cave Canem and The Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. He founded the Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50446621507858,"sku":"9781938584244","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0108c05f-e115-40ee-9f45-cc2143592ce7.jpg?v=1729709388","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-big-book-of-exit-strategies-9781938584244","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}