{"product_id":"williams-korey-wild-indigpb","title":"[01\/12\/27] Williams, Korey: Wild Indigo","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinceton University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 12, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable poetic debut--a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, has inherited the house from his white grandmother--a bequest that offers solitude and space for his creative work but also forces him to confront the trauma of slavery. His male lover, troubled by the morality of inhabiting such a place, believes the property is deepening his own depression. As the couple reckons with the lover's mental state, Korey Williams's poems trace a mounting tension between legacy and refusal, creation and complicity. As the story unfolds, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e moves through a variety of poetic forms, from the sonnet to haibun, maintaining at once a powerful narrative momentum and the compression and musicality of lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMixing elements of Southern Gothic and the genre of the artist's novel, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo\u003c\/i\u003e is written in the tradition of verse narratives such as Anne Carson's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Red\u003c\/i\u003e, Natasha Trethewey's \u003ci\u003eBellocq's Ophelia\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ciaran Carson's \u003ci\u003eFor All We Know\u003c\/i\u003e. Dreamy and uneasy, somber and erotic, \u003ci\u003eWild Indigo \u003c\/i\u003easks what it means to make art--and to make a life--on contested ground, where beauty and violence are bound together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118181212183,"sku":"9780691293530","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71yYWuntaKL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782075545","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/williams-korey-wild-indigpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}