{"product_id":"mine-is-a-community-of-misfits-outlaws-paperback","title":"Mine is a Community of Misfits \u0026 Outlaws - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJesse James Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMine is Community of Misfits and Outlaws. \u003c\/strong\u003eThese are poems, infused with the raw energy and wonderment of a writer for whom regards \u003cstrong\u003epoetry is a force for social transformation\u003c\/strong\u003e. The poems are organized into two collections - the first, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tenderloin Poems \u003c\/em\u003eare a celebration and defense of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco\u003c\/strong\u003e. A vibrant mosaic of ethnicities, languages, faiths, and complexions and one last enclaves of poor and working-class people in the City. The second collection the Long Twilight is a geography of myth, history, and memory in which the personal is intertwined with the cultural and political developments of this country. These poems skip around early childhood events; sweep through the flowering of identity; the origins of political consciousness; and the poet's discovery of the body. Here there are poems of darker time - \u003cstrong\u003elife in wilderness of urban America during the AIDS epidemic\u003c\/strong\u003e. These are followed by \u003cstrong\u003epoems grappling with living in this period of environmental degradation and its unpromising consequences\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51774269227296,"sku":"9780977298532","price":18.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/62e538f955a82dc37b1846a677547867.webp?v=1780444740","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mine-is-a-community-of-misfits-outlaws-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}