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I'm Always so Serious

By Karisma Price
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By Karisma Price
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"I’m Always so Serious is brilliant.” —Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead

Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone “Autocorrects ‘Nigga’ to Night,'” If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In...

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PoetryGeneral & Miscellaneous PoetryAmerican PoetryFamily - Poetry21st Century American PoetryAfrican American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->African American authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->African American women authorsAmerican poetry->21st century