{"product_id":"9780810147133-playhouse","title":"PlayHouse","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003ePresenting poems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home, Jorrell Watkins’s debut poetry collection is a polyvocal, musically charged disruption of the United States’s fixation on drug and gun culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems on Black joy, masculinity, and the music that transforms a space into a home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jorrell Watkins's debut poetry collection is a polyvocal, musically charged disruption of the United States's fixation on drug and gun culture. The poems in \u003ci\u003ePlay House\u003c\/i\u003e embody many identities, including son, brother, fugitive, bluesman, karate practitioner, and witness. Throughout, Watkins inflects a Black\/trap vernacular that defamiliarizes the urban Southern landscape. Across three sections of poetry scored by hip-hop, blues, and trap, Watkins considers how music is a dwelling and wonders which histories, memories, and people haunt each home. Past figures such as John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, and the short-lived 1940s trio Day, Dawn \u0026amp; Dusk intermingle with Migos, the Watkins family, childhood friends, and loved ones both parted and departed. At its core, \u003ci\u003ePlay House\u003c\/i\u003e reckons with the truths and failures of masculinity for Black boys and men, all the while documenting moments of triumphant Black joy and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41606617038945,"sku":"9780810147133","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38244119_f084ceb5-fb1a-46a3-a395-e486908a9137.jpg?v=1763843985","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780810147133-playhouse","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}