{"product_id":"lashley-robert-cant-find-my-way-home-twenty-years-of-poems-2005-2025","title":"Lashley, Robert: Can't Find My Way Home: Twenty Years of Poems: 2005 - 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlue Cactus Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 27, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning two decades, Can't Find My Way Home is Robert Lashley's searing collection of selected poems, a chronicle of Black life shaped by memory, migration, and resistance. These poems move through city blocks, bus stops, churches, and dreamscapes, documenting everyday survival amid systemic violence and spiritual exhaustion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLashley's work draws on gospel, literary, and experimental lyric traditions, creating a powerful hybrid voice that is both politically urgent and formally inventive. Lashley's poems transform everyday urban experience into ritual and revelation. The result is a deeply moving, uncompromising collection that frames poetry as both mourning practice and survival technology. This collection will resonate with readers of social witness literature and experimental poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection is introduced by Rae Miqueli, whose opening essay acts as both invocation and threshold: she invites the reader to encounter these poems not as text alone, but as lived experience-something to be felt in the body, in rhythm and memory, in the ache of place and the persistence of ghosted histories. Her introduction situates the work inside a geography of return and rupture, priming the reader to enter Lashley's world with openness to disorientation, recognition, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEndorsed by a cohort of acclaimed and widely recognized writers-including Hanif Abdurraqib, E. J. Koh, Gabrielle Bates, and others-this collection stands as both a major artistic achievement and a vital document of contemporary Black poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45226287071255,"sku":"9781967633104","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/61IsZ9BcLOL._SL1360.jpg?v=1781727356","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/lashley-robert-cant-find-my-way-home-twenty-years-of-poems-2005-2025","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}