{"product_id":"my-mother-was-a-freedom-fighter-paperback","title":"My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAja Monet\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter\u003c\/em\u003e is poet Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters--the tiny gods who fight to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTextured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaja monet is a Caribbean-American poet, performer, and educator from Brooklyn. She has been awarded the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Nuyorican Poet's Café Grand Slam title, as well as the New York City YWCA's \"One to Watch Award.\" She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Unicorn Sings\u003c\/em\u003e and the co-editor, with Saul Williams, of \u003cem\u003eChorus: A Literary Mixtape\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Little Haiti, Miami, where she is a co-founder of Smoke Signals Studio and dedicates her time merging arts and culture in community organizing with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770764263712,"sku":"9781608467679","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f8894f2735c659d99c8ca8dd3d859939.webp?v=1780377957","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-mother-was-a-freedom-fighter-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}