{"product_id":"powell-kevin-grocery-sh","title":"Powell, Kevin: Grocery Shopping With My Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoft Skull, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 6, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother's evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country's oppression through the generational wounds survived and passed on. These poems are a testament to the healing work of Kevin Powell, as they revel in the power of forgiveness, abundance, and lineage.\" --Mahogany L. Browne, Lincoln Center's inaugural poet in residence and author of \u003ci\u003eVinyl Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home every week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way--examining his own healing while praying for hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrocery Shopping with My Mother \u003c\/i\u003eoriginated as social media posts about these visits and evolved into a breathtaking collection of thirty-two new poems, crafted like an album, plus four bonus tracks celebrating a great love of wordplay. Culturally rooted in the literary traditions of Ntozake Shange and Allen Ginsberg, Powell's poems honor the likes of V (formerly Eve Ensler), bell hooks, and Sidney Poitier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrocery Shopping with My Mother \u003c\/i\u003edives into the complexities of relationships and contemporary themes with honesty and vulnerability. Creatively and spiritually inspired by Stevie Wonder's \u003ci\u003eSongs in the Key of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Powell's poems shift in form and style, from praise chants to reverential meditations to, most importantly, innovative hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40334028537879,"sku":"9781593767433","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/ibg.common.titledetail_72fee760-431a-4e65-9089-27cd6e0c2957.gif?v=1668891265","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/powell-kevin-grocery-sh","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}