{"product_id":"playhouse-poems-9780810147133","title":"Playhouse: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jorrell Watkins's debut poetry collection is a polyvocal, musically charged disruption of the United States's fixation on drug and gun culture. The poems in \u003ci\u003ePlayHouse\u003c\/i\u003e embody many identities, including son, brother, fugitive, bluesman, karate practitioner, and witness. Throughout, Watkins inflects a Black\/trap vernacular that defamiliarizes the urban Southern landscape. Across three sections of poetry scored by hip-hop, blues, and trap, Watkins considers how music is a dwelling and wonders which histories, memories, and people haunt each home. Past figures such as John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, and the short-lived 1940s trio Day, Dawn \u0026amp; Dusk intermingle with Migos, the Watkins family, childhood friends, and loved ones both parted and departed. At its core, \u003ci\u003ePlayHouse\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the truths and failures of masculinity for Black boys and men, all the while documenting moments of triumphant Black joy and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Curbstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810147133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.39d","brand":"Jorrell Watkins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391866695861,"sku":"9780810147133","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_787bdde1-8212-4b96-8e29-4da857cb05c8.jpg?v=1719949016","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/playhouse-poems-9780810147133","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}