A Fortune For Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib
A Fortune For Your Disaster, Hanif Abdurraqib
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A Fortune For Your Disaster
Poems

Author: Hanif Abdurraqib

Narrator: Hanif Abdurraqib

Unabridged: 1 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2019


Synopsis

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.

About Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a best book of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, and Pitchfork, among others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Glennys

“This is a poem about the night that every pizza place in New Haven ran out of cheese and also about the dissolution of a marriage.” HANIF REALLY DID THAT, GIVE THIS MAN A PULITZER. Really tho. Highly recommend the audiobook, which he reads himself, so you can hear the stories behind some of the poe......more

Goodreads review by chantel

Unique, filled with heartache and various ups and downs told through a few perspectives; most notably the perspective of Marvin Gaye. I love Hanif's writing style. It's reflective, pensive, at times comical, sometimes aggressive and super inquisitive. You get intense feels going through all the ques......more