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The Possibility of Tenderness

A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams

September 19, 2025 | Hardcover
ISBN: 9781639551576
$27.95
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Description

About this Author

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and award-winning poet. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, which won the United Kingdom's two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023-the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize. He is also a Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. Jason lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.

ISBN: 9781639551576
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2025-09-19

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Praise for The Possibility of Tenderness

"The knowledge Jason carries in his body is an archive passed down from generation to generation. This book is an attempt to preserve that knowledge and always connect to a history underneath his feet."--Lemara Lindsay Prince

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