{"product_id":"cardinal-tyree-daye-9781556595738","title":"Cardinal","description":"Tyree Daye's \u003cem\u003eCardinal\u003c\/em\u003e is a generous atlas that serves as a poetic \"Green Book\"-- the travel-cum-survival guide for black motorists negotiating racist America in the mid-twentieth century. Interspersed with images of Daye's family and upbringing, which have been deliberately blurred, it also serves as an imperfect family album. \u003cem\u003eCardinal\u003c\/em\u003e traces the South's burdened interiors and the interiors of a black male protagonist attempting to navigate his many departures and returns home --a place that could both lovingly rear him and coolly annihilate him. With the language of elegy and praise, intoning regional dialect and a deliberately disruptive cadence, Daye carries the voices of ancestors and blues poets, while stretching the established zones of the black American vernacular. In tones at once laden and magically transforming, he self-consciously plots his own Great Migration: \"if you see me dancing a twos step\/I'm sending a starless code\/we're escaping everywhere.\" These are poems to be read aloud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tyree Daye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556595735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556595738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2020 pg. 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2020 pg. 70","brand":"Tyree Daye","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043977359615,"sku":"9781556595738","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4de58dbc-616c-4aed-bfed-a17544438f35.jpg?v=1684970206","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cardinal-tyree-daye-9781556595738","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}