{"product_id":"to-be-named-something-else-9781682262283","title":"To Be Named Something Else","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of New York Public Library's Best Books, 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Be Named Something Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage--both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix's debut collection, in the words of series judge Patricia Smith: \"enlivens the everyday--the everyday miraculous, the everyday hallelujah, the numbing everyday love, the everyday risk of just being Black and living. There is absolutely nowhere these poems aren't--we're dancing and sweating through our clothes, terminating a pregnancy in a chilled room of white and silver, finally gettin' those brows threaded and nails did, practicing gettin' the Holy Ghost, sending folks to their rest, having babies, listening carefully to the lessons of elders, and sometimes even talking back. . . . \u003ci\u003eTo Be Named Something Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of reason and reckoning, substance and shadow. It's tender and wide-aloud and just about everything we need right now, when both reason and reckoning are in such woefully short supply.\" Phenix's full-throated poetry, with its \"superlative combination of formalism and funk,\" is assuredly \u003ci\u003esomething else\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaina Phenix is a writer and educator from Harlem. The 2021-22 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison, she is assistant professor of English at Elon University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50691787424018,"sku":"9781682262283","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_120fcfa8-75fa-4b5e-8042-135ff956f050.jpg?v=1734110529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-be-named-something-else-9781682262283","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}