{"product_id":"a-fierce-green-place-pamela-mordecai-9780811231046","title":"A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection \u003cem\u003eJourney Poem\u003c\/em\u003e published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in \u003cem\u003ethe true blue of islands\u003c\/em\u003e, to the stories of freed slaves told in \u003cem\u003esubversive sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, \u003cem\u003eA Fierce Green Place\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a \"womb-space\" of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: \"Women together \/ in one place will \/ bleed in solidarity \/ till every last body \/ turn super bitch at once.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Mordecai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811231046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811231046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.09w x 0.60d","brand":"Pamela Mordecai","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992662212863,"sku":"9780811231046","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a82e53f7-c196-4e7d-a4f3-4edaf6aa56b4.jpg?v=1683320102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-fierce-green-place-pamela-mordecai-9780811231046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}