{"product_id":"siddiq-mohammed-zenia-blk-msmpb","title":"[10\/01\/26] Siddiq, Mohammed Zenia: BLK MSM","description":"\u003cp\u003eWonder, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 1, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBLK MSM, Ibrahim’s highly anticipated fifth full-length collection, is an exploration of the black (dis)experience in five rooms. Presented in multiple sections, centuries of continental philosophical and black poetic tradition meet in political exiles within Ibrahim’s surrealist verse. What comes together is a museum of the languages of time. BLK MSM is heartbreakingly erotic and linguistically playful, though always serious as these poems rush forth to meet our abject moment. Ibrahim delivers the reader an exacting portrait of the violences of global history rendered through the heart of a poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first section “Why Don’t You Write,” which serves as an Ars Poetica not only for Ibrahim’s own work but for any poet of the zeitgeist, Ibrahim writes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You see, every tragedy becomes a song a wound a scar carried historical muscle and finally (like you ran the MARATHON \u0026amp; died, or a just CAME) driving towards a divine love, we are each other our poems and our body because we suffer the same malady earth, crime after crime, as in, aren’t you and won't you always be my sister ? The second stanza to the life I’ll lead then lose?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe narrate collapse, so something remains of the POEM.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45379913482263,"sku":"9781732090071","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1784910436-900.jpg?v=1786142604","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/siddiq-mohammed-zenia-blk-msmpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}