{"product_id":"well-played","title":"Well Played","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.notacult.media\/author\/beau-sia\" target=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeau Sia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThese poems began as an answer. In the face of the undeniable, they became a reckoning. Of the lies that are lived to feel belonging. Of the lies that are told to hide shame. Of the lies that are believed to maintain within illusions. \u003cem\u003eWell Played \u003c\/em\u003eis a warning to the present, a welcoming of the truth, and a poet working to earn his way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe poetry in Beau Sia's Well Played is fearless, hard-hitting, uncompromising. His own unflinching self-reflection on race, colonialism, assimilation, representation, white supremacy, identity is a ever-shifting kaleidoscope of words, timelines, and layers of being that spin into something like a survival guide, a trickster's song, a call to action, an incantation for a kinder and more just world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Yumi Sakugawa, author of \u003cem\u003eYour Illustrated Guide to Becoming One with the Universe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThe book uses the language we have been afforded to tell the truth about things we have been forbidden to say. It is the context, the set up for every racialized joke used against us. I dare you to read it. At work. Out loud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Chinaka Hodge, Screenwriter\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Not a Cult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44470110945333,"sku":"NAC-9394-HB","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/0789\/6885\/files\/WP-nobg.webp?v=1748868378","url":"https:\/\/louriabooks.com\/products\/well-played","provider":"Louria Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}