{"product_id":"america-a-love-story-wesleyan-poetry-series-0819502154","title":"America, A Love Story (Wesleyan Poetry Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0819502154\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dungy, Camille T.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's GardenAmerica, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and mother in today's America, and her first book of poetry in almost a decade. Piercingly honest and deeply compassionate, this poetry moves through the mounting griefs of contemporary American life with unwavering clarity. The book is part indictment, part celebration-full of gratitude, fear, resistance, and hope. Dungy explores intimacy, parenting, racism, history, and the natural world with clarity and depth. Some poems reflect on the past; others respond to the work of contemporary Black artists. Many are formally playful, including a series of 700-character poems inspired by the 700 hours of sleep a mother loses in her child's first year. Gorgeous, bright, and bold, these poems speak from the edges-between mother and child, body and earth, self and country. They hold tension and tenderness in equal measure, creating a space for love amidst uncertainty.[sample poem]To enter our own empty houseShe was seven when we stoppedusing keys. One less thing to lose.Now we punch a combination.Easy, but hopefully not so easya stranger could guess. This is whereI should stop. They are boundto be angry, my beloveds. I amgiving away all our secrets again.Vulnerability is the root of much fury.=I was small. A stone in the yardhid a metal case with a lidthat slid like a matchbox topto reveal our key. Lifting that rockI thought of bashing someone's head.I thought of harm lurking, dressedin the body of some stranger.=Sometimes, I wrestle my daughter.I make her tiny body work itselfout from under the weight I makeof my own. In this way I tryto teach her how it feels to break free.America, A Love Story\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52180249280800,"sku":"NEW0819502154","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41osJ49BqML.jpg?v=1786542196","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/america-a-love-story-wesleyan-poetry-series-0819502154","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}