{"product_id":"all-the-names-given-isbn-9781951142926","title":"All The Names Given","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Exquisite.” ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Brave, tender and generous. . . . A haunting study of what we can find in the silences of history when history is recognized as more than a noun, when recognized as something alive and kinetic.” ―Camonghne Felix, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuild Yourself a Boat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOn the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory in \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e, while simultaneously breaking new ground in both form and content. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection opens with poems about the author’s surname―one that shouldn’t have survived into modernity―and examines the rich and fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus outlines a childhood caught between intimacy and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a space in which the poet reckons with his own ancestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence of the legacy wrought by colonialism. The poems travel through space―shifting fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and the American South―and brilliantly move from an examination of family history into the wandering lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a complex array of marriage poems―matured, wiser, and more accepting of love’s fragility. Throughout, \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, in which the art of writing captions attempts to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems as well as moments inside and outside of them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormally sophisticated, with a weighty perception and startling directness, \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, tender book full of humanity and remembrance from one of the most important young poets of our generation.Exquisite. —The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply personal, emotionally striking, with memorable turns of phrase.—Chicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBold and tender. . . . These voice and narrative-driven poems bear \nwitness to the gaps in language, speaking, and understanding—moving \nseamlessly through new poetic and visual forms in the pursuit of \nbridging and speaking to these gaps.—The Arkansas International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntrobus never sits inside darkness. It’s not so much that he is overly sentimental or naively optimistic. Rather, Antrobus is able to juxtapose the most troubling moments with vignettes of wonder and wisdom. . . . Antrobus burst onto the scene with two incredible collections this year. Do yourself a favor and get a copy of both \u003ci\u003eThe Perseverance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a poet you’re going to want to follow.\n—The Poetry Question\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing and moving.—The Times Literary Supplement (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e, the essential tension is knowledge. Knowledge of self, knowledge of others. These poems make the sublime leap or union of witness to ‘with-ness,’ so their knowledge is not speculative but holds together, beautiful and fraught, the broken burden of honesty: love. Antrobus is a phenomenal poet.\n—Ishion Hutchinson, author of House of Lords and Commons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Antrobus] reckons with his own ancestry, conflicting racial and cultural identities, and chronicles the damages of colonialism.—CITY Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection is a brave, tender and generous piece of music, where family is a cord forever troubled by the process of being named. With a knife-like precision, \u003ci\u003eAll the Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e manages to caption the speaker’s dance with the ghosts of his bloodline, offering us a haunting study on what we can find in the silences of history when history is recognized as more than a noun, when recognized as something alive and kinetic, something constantly in conversation with the present. I can’t wait to see how this timely book ripples through our world.\n—Camoghne Felix, author of Build Yourself a Boat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat a beautiful book Raymond Antrobus has written! I love it. So much pain, so much tenderness, so much music and invention and passion in \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e. Truly, it is terrific. Antrobus has a special gift of making music from stories and giving his lyrics gravity and urgency that’s inimitable.\n—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are revelations. This collection is so obviously\nat the forefront of a new canon whose singular and evocative\napproach to lyricism and imagistic play demonstrates not only\nthe necessity of our multilingual and multimodal realities,\nbut ‘the volume of their power,’ too.—Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fluidly written understanding of self, history, and oppression from a fast-rising poet.—Library Journal, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeaf poet Raymond Antrobus's powerful collection winds readers between text and image, sound and silence, while tackling questions about identity, family and trauma. . . . bold and direct, these poems are stunning in their generosity: two hands open, offering abundance.—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful. . . .   Antrobus beautifully pays witness to the legacy of colonialism while providing another gripping meditation on language and communication.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Antrobus [has a] depth of awareness, originality, and empathy—all turned inside out and refracted into prism-like hues of insight.—Foreword Reviews\u003cb\u003eRaymond Antrobus\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Sweeten Bitter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Perseverance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e. He was awarded the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem ‘Sound Machine’. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, and a Sunday Times\/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize, and several of his poems were added to the GCSE syllabus in 2022. His picture books for children are published by Walker Books (UK) and Candlewick Press (US). Antrobus is an advocate for several D\/deaf charities, including DeafKidz International and the National Deaf Children’s Society. He divides his time between England and New Orleans.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232917729509,"sku":"NP9781951142926","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781951142926.jpg?v=1767721301","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/all-the-names-given-isbn-9781951142926","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}