Stop and Frisk: American Poems
Stop and Frisk: American Poems
STOP AND FRISK: AMERICAN POEMS — One-year Anniversary Sale
Available directly from the publisher, this collection of dramatic monologues ruthlessly interrogates entrenched injustice and its insidious echoes. Part rap sheet, part concept album, Asim lays down tracks that add conviction to our collective broken record: What could be more American than pretending truths were self-evident when they seldom were?
Without the pretense of safety, Stop and Frisk plays for keeps. These starkly revelatory poems expose the dark heart of our nation and call for a reckoning—the only way out before everything breaks / into hurt, noise, and ever after.
“Urgency and imagination, truth and focus: Jabari Asim brings those qualities together in a book of poetry that confronts the lethal face of racism: death-by-police. This book challenges the boundaries of the art by being, in a very good sense of the word, documentary.”
—Robert Pinsky