Bibliograph

A fortune for your disaster, poems, Hanif Abdurraqib

Type

Label

A fortune for your disaster, poems, Hanif Abdurraqib

Language

eng

resource.accompanyingMatter

technical information on music

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Main title

A fortune for your disaster

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

Hanif Abdurraqib

Sub title

poems

Summary

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that Michael Jordan pushed off, about forgiveness, and how none of the author's black friends wanted to listen to "Don't Stop Believin'." It's about wrestling with histories, personal and shared. Abdurraqib uses touchstones from the world outside-from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs-to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable

Contributor

Creator