{"product_id":"unshuttered-poems-hardcover","title":"Unshuttered: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnshuttered \u003c\/i\u003eis a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe ache for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These tragic grays and bustles, mourners' \u003cbr\u003e hats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does with us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The poet's unrivaled dexterity with dramatic monologue and poetic form reanimates these countenances, staring back from such yesterdays, and the stories they may have told. This is one of American literature's finest wordsmiths doing what she does best--unreeling history to find its fierce and formidable lyric. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePATRICIA SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 2021 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement, is the author of eight critically acknowledged volumes of poetry, including Incendiary Art (TriQuarterly Books), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the poetry category, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; in 2008, her book Blood Dazzler was a finalist for the National Book Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, Smith is a distinguished professor at the City University of New York and visiting professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772198256928,"sku":"9780810145634","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/822e3e2737f6a707fa66d50c639cbe0a.webp?v=1780401035","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/unshuttered-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}