A Fortune for Your Disaster -- Hanif Abdurraqib, Paperback

In his much-anticipated follow-up to 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 outside--from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his neighbor's dogs--to create a mirror, inside of which every angle presents a new possibility.

Author: Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 108
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 7.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781947793439

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17
Publishers Weekly 08/19/2019