{"product_id":"book-hj9f","title":"Spectral Evidence","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • \u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDigest \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAir Traffic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegant, profound, and intoxicating—\u003ci\u003eSpectral Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eDigest\u003c\/i\u003e, moves fluidly among considerations of the pro-wrestler Owen Hart; Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials; MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department (“flames rose like orchids . . . \/ blocks lay open like egg cartons”); and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, \u003ci\u003eSpectral Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice—and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: “If I could be \/ the forensic dreamer \/ . . . \/ . . . my art would be a mortician’s \/ paints.”","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49317223235888,"sku":"BDhj9f","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/510690-hj9f-Square.jpg?v=1733442201","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hj9f","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}