{"product_id":"all-the-names-given-poems","title":"All the Names Given: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory in \u003cem\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/em\u003e, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection opens with poems about the author's surname--one that shouldn't have survived into modernity--and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space in which the poet reckons with his own ancestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The poems travel through space--shifting fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and the American South--and brilliantly move from an examination of family history into the wandering lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a complex array of marriage poems--matured, wiser, and more accepting of love's fragility. Throughout, \u003cem\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/em\u003e is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, in which the art of writing captions attempts to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems as well as moments inside and outside of them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormally sophisticated, with a weighty perception and startling directness, \u003cem\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely, tender book full of humanity and remembrance from one of the most important young poets of our generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond Antrobus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793334075434,"sku":"9781951142926","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/all-the-names-given-poems-8795507.jpg?v=1762150469","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/all-the-names-given-poems","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}