A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems

A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems

â€œWhen an authorâ€™s unmitigated brilliance shows up on every page, itâ€™s tempting to skip a description and just say, Read this! Such is the case with this breathlessly powerful, deceptively breezy book of poetry.â€ â€”Booklist, Starred Review

In his much-anticipated follow-up toÂ 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 outsideâ€”from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogsâ€”to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.
Country USA
Manufacturer Tin House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-09-03
Format Kindle eBook

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