{"product_id":"soulmate-as-a-verb","title":"SOULMATE AS A VERB","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies make love possible, they enable tender connection and transmit electric joy, all while leaving one vulnerable to discord and abuse, heartbreak and grief. Like a body, Smoot’s daring poetry metabolizes cruelty, seeking the tender knowledge and kinships that allow for buoyant survival. The subjectivity of a Black, trans self becomes a prism, shining a variegated intellect on everything from suburbia to Palestine, top surgery to police violence. By utilizing forms such as kwansaba, calligram, Craigslist personals, and golden shovels, SOULMATE AS A VERB revels in structures that locate poet and poem in a lineage of innovative and contemporary Black, queer verse. Kelsey L. Smoot dazzles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DOPAMINE\/Semiotext","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45081614254127,"sku":"9781635902822","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/8122\/0143\/files\/9781635902822.jpg?v=1774138631","url":"https:\/\/highfivebooks.org\/products\/soulmate-as-a-verb","provider":"High Five Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}