{"product_id":"picking-scabs-from-the-body-joanne-godley-9781948461634","title":"Picking Scabs from the Body History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePicking Scabs from the Body History\u003c\/em\u003e, opens with an ode to a library wherein a nine-year-old girl is invited in to read. She quickly discovers, in the book she picks up (\u003cem\u003eWe Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People)\u003c\/em\u003e, a historical narrative fraught with injustices that \"bristles the hair on my fearful arms,\" and sees photos of \"lynching victims\" and \"treed men swing with hung heads\/ mouths stuffed full.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoems in the collection exposes the dark underbelly of history-the sore spots or scabs of history. There is a poem relating another genocide-this time of the American native peoples. Yet another poem describes the theft of genetic material from Henrietta Lacks that spawned a multibillion-dollar stem cell industry, the injustices meted out to Haiti-the first nation to cast off enslavement. Godley includes poems from her own life experiences: from witnessing a coup d' tat in Cote d'Ivoire to a personal tryst with members of the Black Panther Party to the rebellion in the 1970's in Detroit, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are poems of witness, of protest and of empowerment. They are commentaries on the mis-written truths about race, violence and injustice and of the targeted peoples involved reclaiming their place in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanne Godley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948461633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948461634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Poetry Box\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d","brand":"Joanne Godley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982853538047,"sku":"9781948461634","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8fdf4ff-c995-4954-8890-fe10a9aaa3d1.jpg?v=1683263362","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/picking-scabs-from-the-body-joanne-godley-9781948461634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}