{"product_id":"mend-kwoya-fagin-maples-9780813176277","title":"Mend: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the \"father of modern gynecology,\" and a memorial at his birthplace honors \"his service to suffering women, empress and slave alike.\" These tributes whitewash the fact that Sims achieved his surgical breakthroughs by experimenting on eleven enslaved African American women. Lent to Sims by their owners, these women were forced to undergo operations without their consent. Today, the names of all but three of these women are lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMend: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy. In poems exploring imagined memories and experiences relayed from hospital beds, the speakers challenge Sims's lies, mourn their trampled dignity, name their suffering in spirit, and speak of their bodies as \"bruised fruit.\" At the same time, they are more than his victims, and the poems celebrate their humanity, their feelings, their memories, and their selves. A finalist for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, this debut collection \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates a complex and disturbing chapter of the African American experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kwoya Fagin Maples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813176271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813176277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.23d","brand":"Kwoya Fagin Maples","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994915995903,"sku":"9780813176277","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_602ab001-b3b7-41ef-b7f8-d68c4085113a.jpg?v=1683332930","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mend-kwoya-fagin-maples-9780813176277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}