{"product_id":"this-elegance-hardcover","title":"This Elegance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDerrick Austin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Elegance\u003c\/i\u003e is a poetic meditation on beauty, pleasure, and transcendence in a time of collective uncertainty.\u003c\/b\u003e These poems respond to solitude, grief, and fear with a radical inward turn--seeking ecstasy, presence, and the reclamation of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving the sacred and the erotic, \u003ci\u003eThis Elegance\u003c\/i\u003e engages with visual arts through the concept of \u003ci\u003esacra conversazione\u003c\/i\u003e (\"sacred conversation\"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue--Kathleen Collins, André Leon Talley, Richmond Barthé, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Monáe, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits and creative kin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a Black, queer body so often dislocated from time and place, pleasure becomes an act of resistance--a grounding in the now. \u003ci\u003eThis Elegance\u003c\/i\u003e is a love song--an offering to Black artistry, a tribute to visionary lives, and a testament to the power of beauty in even our most precarious moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerrick Austin is the author of \u003ci\u003eTenderness\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, finalist for a Golden Poppy Award, and a Lambda Literary Award;\u003ci\u003e Trouble the Water\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2016) winner of the A. Poulin Jr, Poetry Prize, finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Thom Gunn Award, Lambda Literary Award, and more. Austin lives in New York, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 85\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377606615347,"sku":"9781960145963","price":60.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/7zXD1lZ1zt9781960145963.webp?v=1779325968","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/this-elegance-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}