"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 lossAnchored 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 these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence—“We know that mostly everything around us / is measured in blood.”—but there is also immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a book “so dark you have no other option but to call it / precious.”

Format Häftad Omfång 92 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Sarabande Books, Incorporated Utgivningsdatum 2023-03-30 ISBN 9781956046045