{"product_id":"the-beloved-community-paperback","title":"The Beloved Community - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Spears Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, \u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e sees Jones at her best as she writes toward and in search of all that connects and disconnects us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her fifth poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e, Jackson Poetry Prize winner Patricia Spears Jones interrogates the necessity and fragility of human bonds: sensual, familial, societal. From lyric to elegy, far-reaching poems use word play and metaphor to create richly textured landscapes in search of community. As we traverse delis, laundromats, and the Brooklyn block where morning glories grow \"leaves plump as Italian cookies,\" poems about poverty, art, and community, become poems about location--always the city is alive and breathing. Later, the collection widens its view, leaving Brooklyn to visit the consequences of violence across America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Atlanta Child Murders to the murder of Nia Wilson, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e is fearless in its rage and hope as it explores what disrupts-- oppression, injustice, loss, grief, and a fraught sense of the erotic. Largely dedicated to musicians, artists, and fellow poets, Jones acknowledges art as tools for both care and resistance, recognizing that \"voice is our greatest magic.\" Imbued with history, laced with tenderness, and channeling a long tradition of the blues in African American poetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Beloved Community\u003c\/i\u003e speaks with spark and urgency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn-based poet Patricia Spears Jones is the author of four collections including \u003ci\u003eA Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and five chapbooks. Her work has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the editor of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets\u003c\/i\u003e. Jones is the winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize from \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. An active literary citizen of New York for over four decades, Jones served as program coordinator for The Poetry Project of St. Marks Church and founded the WORDS Sunday series in Brooklyn. Currently, Jones is a Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Black Earth Institute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 26, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460648845490,"sku":"9781556596667","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6c1ea9447107cc9360c8e8e28e6678af.webp?v=1778927703","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-beloved-community-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}