{"product_id":"blue-front-poems-155597449x","title":"Blue Front: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 155597449X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Collins, Martha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collinsthe victim hanged, though not on a tree, thiswas not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern event, the trees were not involved.-from \"Blue Front\"Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking.In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence-newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculationsabout her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979197579552,"sku":"NEW155597449X","price":10.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/blue-front-poems-155597449x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}