{"product_id":"dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit-essays-paperback","title":"Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAisha Sabatini Sloan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt; a daughter on a road trip with her father; a professor playing with puppets in the wilds of Vermont; an interloper on a police ride-along in Detroit; a collector of the dreams of scientists at a biostation. As she watches cell phone video recordings of murder and is haunted in her sleep by the news, she reflects on her formative experiences with aesthetic and spiritual discovery, troubling those places where Blackness has been conflated with death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSabatini Sloan's lively style is perfectly suited to the way she circles a subject or an idea before cinching it tight. The curiosity that guides each essay, focusing on the period between the 2016 election and the onset of the pandemic, is rooted in the supposition that there is an intrinsic relationship between the way we conceptualize darkness and our collective opportunity for awakening.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAisha Sabatini Sloan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fluency of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Borealis\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCaptioning the Archives\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGuernica, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places, and she teaches at the University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47389712122034,"sku":"9781644452714","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0664b998db79130085e300e3c30f29c5.webp?v=1777931459","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dreaming-of-ramadi-in-detroit-essays-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}