{"product_id":"middlepassages-poetry-9780811212328","title":"Middlepassages: Poetry","description":"Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. \u003cem\u003eMiddle Passages\u003c\/em\u003e, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of \u003cem\u003eMiddle Passages\u003c\/em\u003e address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the \u003cem\u003eLondon Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e noted, it is \"a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811212328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Kamau Brathwaite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52472754307253,"sku":"9780811212328","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c51f89c7-6e69-486f-bf55-a6989649bf92.jpg?v=1777444293","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/middlepassages-poetry-9780811212328","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}