SHIELD THE JOYOUS by Christopher X. Shade is featured in a stunning display of 2,600 books at the 28th Poets House Showcase Exhibition in New York! “The focus of the Poets House Showcase is on presses and publishers from the United States, but the collection is also designed to serve an international community of English-speaking poets. The Showcase opens to the public on April 6th, and remains open during library hours until May 31st, 2024. At the close of the exhibit, Showcase titles will move into the Reed Foundation Library where they are integrated into Poets House’s 80,000-item poetry collection.”
“Shield the Joyous is a work of great wonderment and love, amidst “the ghostly whirl” of the author’s own grief and loss. His baby brother has died of addiction and there is much to think about — so into the deep quiet of a monastery he goes, where the gloom and majesty of memory and trouble surge and mix alongside the Hudson River and the swirl is able to illuminate, settle, calm. “I was elsewhere \ when my brother died” — but the writer is fully present now, to honor his sibling with rich care and tender thinking and writing that will help anyone who has ever lost anyone, now and forever, amen.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye, the Young People’s Poet Laureate, and author or editor of over 30 volumes, most recently The Tiny Journalist
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