{"product_id":"pitch-dark-anarchy-randall-horton-9780810152274","title":"Pitch Dark Anarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitch Dark Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the danger of one single narrative with multilayered poems that challenge concepts of beauty and image, race and identity, as well as the construction of skin color. Through African American memory and moments in literature, the poems seek to disrupt and dismantle foundations that create erasures and echoes of the unremembered. \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003euses the slave revolt of the Amistad as a starting point, a metaphor for \"opposition\" and \"against.\" These themes run through the very core for the book while drawing on inventive and playful language. The poems bring to life human experiences and conditions created by an \"elite\" society. In these poems, locations and landscapes are always shifting, proving that our shared experiences can be interchangeable. At the very core of \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003eis a seven-part poem based on the artist Margret Bowland's \"Another Thorny Crown Series,\" which are paintings of an African American girl in white face. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through innovative formal and visual techniques, such as fractured syntax and typographical disruption, Horton evokes the disorienting experiences of urban life, while also calling into question the complicity of language in the oppressive structures he anatomizes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Horton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810152274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810152274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Triquarterly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.14w x 0.31d","brand":"Randall Horton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947267031295,"sku":"9780810152274","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_77ab2e72-2353-4e6d-a74f-244d6b14c3d3.jpg?v=1681517704","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pitch-dark-anarchy-randall-horton-9780810152274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}