{"product_id":"tender-headed-national-poetry-series","title":"Tender Headed by Olatunde Osinaike","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally playful meditation on Black identity and masculinity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"In this dynamic debut collection, Nigerian American poet Osinaike unpacks ideas of masculinity with playful musicality . . . Acutely attuned to poetic lineage, Osinaike cites established poets Yona Harvey, Ladan Osman, and Morgan Parker, setting a context for his own new and versatile voice.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe irony of transformation often is that we mistake it to have occurred long before it does. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes its time in asserting the realization that growth remains ever ahead of you. Examining the themes of Black identity, accountability, and narration, we encounter a series of revealing snapshots into the role language plays in chiseling possibility and its rigid command of depiction. Olatunde Osinaike's startling debut sorts through the many-minded masks behind Black masculinity. At its center lies an inquiry about the puzzling nature of relationships, how ceaseless wonder can be in its challenge of a truth. In the name of music and self-identity, the speaker weaves their way through fault and how it amends Black life in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is demonstrated best in how the demanding, yet vulnerable tone for the collection is set in \"Men Like Me,\" its restless opening poem. Here, we find the speaker reciting a chronicle of generational neglect from men that became him also. Earnest and sharp, there is a beauty in seeing a poet not shy away from both the melancholy and resolve of rescripting their path while cherishing their steps and missteps along the way. This collection is a panel aching of fathers, sons, uncles, grandfathers, all of whom would do well to join in and confront shared privileges that are typically curtailed or altogether avoided in conversation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTender Headed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e entrusts the heart to be a compass, insisting on a journey unto itself and a melodic detour toward tenderness precise with its own footing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51687550746940,"sku":"9781636141411","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/612pqw1nv7L._SL1200.jpg?v=1757713201","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/tender-headed-national-poetry-series","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}