{"product_id":"9798885740586","title":"Lullaby for the Grieving","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouthern Literary Review's Best Poetry Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eMaya Angelou Book Award 2025, Poetry, longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith previous work hailed by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as “unflinching” and “piercing”, Ashley M. Jones’s \u003ci\u003eLullaby for the Grieving\u003c\/i\u003e is her most personal collection to date.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn her fourth poetry collection, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How does one find a path through the deep sorrow of losing a parent? What wonders of Blackness have to be suppressed to make way for \"progress\"?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJourneying through landscapes of Alabama, the Middle Passage and Underground Railroad, interior spaces of loss and love, and her father’s garden, Jones constructs both an elegy for her father and a celebration of the sacred exuberance and audacity of life. Featuring poems from her tenure as Alabama’s first Black and youngest Poet Laureate, \u003ci\u003eLullaby for the Grieving\u003c\/i\u003e finds calm in unimaginable storms and attempts to listen for the sounds of healing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42574410612797,"sku":"9798885740586","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9798885740586_p0.jpg?v=1771580988","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9798885740586","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}