{"product_id":"unshuttered-poems-9780810145634","title":"Unshuttered: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnshuttered: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is the vessel for poetic personae and a selection of antique photographs of Black Americans, which Patricia Smith has collected over the course of twenty years. In these hard-to-find images, men, women, and children peer at us from the past, stripped of their lives and histories. Smith's language and searing lines ghost-story the unnamed forebears who daguerreotype-stare from the page while backdropping the poet's own losses: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe ache for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003enever touch. These tragic grays and bustles, mourners'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ehats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eto disguise what yearning does with us.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This masterful and haunting mosaic is a search for lost histories, both personal and inherited, from an incendiary era in human history. Bound in black and white, these faces, staring back, find a home and resting place in the words of one of American literature's finest wordsmiths. In return, the wordsmith uncovers her own unknown history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810145634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Patricia Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42567540179125,"sku":"9780810145634","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1d107823-04c2-4807-856e-dde12b2eb27b.jpg?v=1671551476","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/unshuttered-poems-9780810145634","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}