{"product_id":"the-system-of-dantes-hell-9781617753961","title":"The System of Dante's Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North and rural South, as told through the prism of \u003cem\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/em\u003e....Other writers addressed race more directly, but for all its linguistic slipperiness, Baraka's language conveys the feelings of fear, violation, and fury with a surprising potency. A pungent and lyrical portrait of mid-'60s black protest.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by Woodie King Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 1965 novel is a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, structured on the themes of Dante's \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e violence, incontinence, fraud, treachery. With a poet's skill Baraka creates the atmosphere of hell, and with dramatic power he reconstructs the brutality of the black slums of Newark, a small Southern town, and New York City. The episodes contained within the novel represent both states of mind and states of the soul--lyrical, fragmentary, and allusive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Akashic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617753961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amiri Baraka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38022267240629,"sku":"9781617753961","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_82a42049-4cc2-4af4-b018-aceeb9d92e50.jpg?v=1609181018","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-system-of-dantes-hell-9781617753961","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}