{"product_id":"daley-ward-yrsa-bonepb","title":"Daley-Ward, Yrsa: Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003ePenguin, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 26, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"yrsa daley-ward's bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.\" --nayyirah waheed, author of salt.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForeword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBone. Visceral. Close to. Stark.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and pared-down, they become universal.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society's expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward's bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"You will come away bruised.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou will come away bruised\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebut this will give you poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679352729623,"sku":"9780143132615","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91eCbad4wjL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1698447934","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/daley-ward-yrsa-bonepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}