{"product_id":"affidavit-by-starr-davis","title":"Affidavit by Starr Davis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"views-element-container block block-views-blockbooks-featured-quote-award-node-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"view books featured-quote-award-node-block\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"view-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"views-row\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"views-field views-field-field-quotes-awards\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"field-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffidavit\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ecaptures the passionate intensity of motherhood and custody battles within the constraining shape of bureaucratic legal forms. Presenting us with the horrors of incarceration and the wonders of birth, these poems testify to the power of parental love even amidst the suffocating apparatuses of the courtroom. Formally and emotionally complex,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffidavit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epays attention to what happens when private lives are forced into public arenas of judgement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStarr Davis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ePoem-a-Day, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e. She was the 2024 Writing Freedom Fellow with Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffidavit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the most recent winner of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHanging Loose Press’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eannual Founders Award for a first book of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e “A writer whose work inspires both hope and rage, leaving me eager to read more of this singular voice.”— May-lee Chai\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“These poems are relentless: they will not let us pretend that Davis’s body exists apart from its familial or social history; they will not let us go until we accept as evidence the painful truths that the courts can’t hear, but that are always in poetry’s purview.”— Evie Shockley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Brooklyn Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45283255746742,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0201\/8796\/files\/affidavit-233x300-699957605.webp?v=1784925486","url":"https:\/\/swag.brooklynpoets.org\/products\/affidavit-by-starr-davis","provider":"Brooklyn Poets","version":"1.0","type":"link"}