{"product_id":"unshuttered-poems-hardcover","title":"Unshuttered: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award winner Patricia Smith presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of two decades, Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnshuttered \u003c\/i\u003eis a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe ache for fiction etched in black and white. Our eyes never touch. These tragic grays and bustles, mourners'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ehats plopped high upon our tamed but tangled crowns, strain to disguise what yearning does with us.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePATRICIA SMITH'\u003c\/b\u003es honors include the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry and the 2021 Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eIncendiary Art\u003c\/i\u003e (TriQuarterly Books), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2018 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the poetry category, and finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and \u003ci\u003eBlood Dazzler\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, Smith is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and a former distinguished professor at the City University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53488964796723,"sku":"9780810145634","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/k0AC17AcUl9780810145634.webp?v=1781519586","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/unshuttered-poems-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}