{"product_id":"dickison-steve-inside-sonpb","title":"Dickison, Steve: Inside Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eOmnidawn, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eOctober 02, 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoetic iterations of what Amiri Baraka called the blues impulse, attending to an \"inside song\" that \"could bring people in\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems sense music as a generative force, always gone other ways than culture and commerce need and declare it to travel. Half the book (Zora Neale Hurston) obliquely teases out the practice of \"fieldwork\" as the study of \"getting into the crowd,\" and half follows from Charlie Haden's deployment of \"liberation music\" as communitarian voice in the face of acts of State targeted at peoples and persons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteve Dickison teaches at San Francisco State University, where he directs The Poetry Center. His work has appeared in SFMOMA's Open Space, BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry, and Bomb, which awarded him the 2014 Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Northern Minnesota.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817246732311,"sku":"9781632430625","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9781632430625.jpg?v=1776292988","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/dickison-steve-inside-sonpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}