Hanif Abdurraqib
Auteur de They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Hanif Abdurraqib
Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School (2022) — Directeur de publication — 21 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (2019) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1983
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Études
- Beechcroft High School, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Professions
- poet
essayist
cultural critic - Prix et distinctions
- MacArthur Fellowship (2021)
Windham Campbell Award (Nonfiction, 2024)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 1,447
- Popularité
- #17,763
- Évaluation
- 4.4
- Critiques
- 38
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 2
KIRKUS:
The acclaimed poet and cultural critic uses his lifelong relationship with basketball to muse on the ways in which we grow attached to our hometowns, even when they fail us.
Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America and Go Ahead in the Rain, was in awe of the talents of such local basketball players as the legendary LeBron James (“a 14-year-old, skinny and seemingly poured into an oversized basketball uniform that always suggested it was one quick move away from evicting him”) and Kenny Gregory, who went on to play college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks. Abdurraqib’s complex love of the sport and its players mirrors the complexity of his love for his home state, where he’s spent time unhoused as well as incarcerated, and where his mother passed away when he was only a child. “It bears mentioning that I come from a place people leave,” he writes. Yet, despite witnessing the deaths of friends and watching the media deem his home a “war zone,” the author feels unable to leave. “Understand this: some of our dreams were never your dreams, and will never be,” he writes. “When we were young, so many people I loved just wanted to live forever, where we were. And so yes, if you are scared, stay scared. Stay far enough away from where our kinfolk rest so that a city won’t get any ideas.” Structured as four quarters, delineated by time markers echoing a countdown clock, the narrative includes timeouts and intermissions that incorporate poetry. Lyrically stunning and profoundly moving, the confessional text wanders through a variety of topics without ever losing its vulnerability, insight, or focus. Abdurraqib’s use of second person is sometimes cloying, but overall, this is a formally inventive, gorgeously personal triumph.
An innovative memoir encompassing sports, mortality, belonging, and home.… (plus d'informations)