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02645aam a2200361 i 4500 001 99ABD132091211EFA2C9076631ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240503010132 008 230413s2024 mnu b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2023940234 020 $a 1644452715 020 $a 9781644452714 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 082 04 $a 305.8/00977434 $q OCoLC $2 23/eng/20231120 100 1 $a Sabatini Sloan, Aisha, $e author. 245 10 $a Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit : $b essays / $c Aisha Sabatini Sloan. 250 $a Revised edition. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, MN : $b Graywolf Press, $c [2024] 300 $a 146 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "Originally published in a different form by 1913 Press in 2017"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143). 520 $a "An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction. This 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. Sabatini 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."-- $c Amazon.com. 586 $a Winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. 650 0 $a Essays $x African American authors. 650 0 $a Meditations $x African American authors. 650 0 $a African Americans $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Ethnic groups $z United States $y 21st century. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft. 710 2 $a Graywolf Press, $e publisher. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240503010522.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=99ABD132091211EFA2C9076631ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search