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Happy Pub Day to @jmixweb and Stereo (Type). Thanks to @aaknopf for the gifted copy. QOTD: What keeps you from reading more poetry? I wasn't always a fan of poetry because I never quite understood it when I was younger. I thought it had to rhyme and follow a certain pattern. I thought it had to tell a story. I always felt like I was missing the point or the main idea. Now that I am older and have totally immersed myself back into poetry, I totally love it. I understand that poetry is political, metaphorical and sometimes even lyrical. Poetry critiques flaws in society and explores deep subjects that affect different people. Poetry isn't meant to answer questions all the time but instead aims to question what you think you know. What I love about poetry is that it puts words to some of the thoughts and emotions that float around in my brain about issues that happen in the world. 📃SYNOPSIS📃 A radical, urgent collection of poems about Blackness, the self, and the dismantling of corrupt powers in the fight for freedom. Jonah Mixon-Webster works at the intersections of space and the body, race and region, sexuality and class. Stereo(TYPE), his debut collection of poetry, is a reckoning and a force, a revision of our most sacred mythologies, and a work of documentary reporting from Mixon-Webster's hometown of Flint, Michigan, where clean tap water remains an uncertainty and the aftermath of racist policies persist. Challenging stereotypes through scenes that scatter with satire, violence, and the extreme vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster invents visual/sonic forms, conceptualizes poems as transcripts and frequently asked questions, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies, deconstructing the very foundations America is built on. Interrogating language and the ways we wield it as both sword and shield, Stereo(TYPE) is a one-of-a-kind, rapturous collection of vital and beautiful poems. #StereoTypes #jonahmixonwebster #poetrycollections #Blackpoetry #BlackLiterature #paperbacks #bibliophile #bookworm #books #bookdragon #ownvoices #bookish #diversereads #booksandmurals #booksandart #bookphotos #booksoutside #grafitti #bookrecs (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRSbA4kL-Sb/?utm_medium=tumblr