{"product_id":"blue-front-paperback-1","title":"Blue Front - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe victim hanged, though not on a tree, this \u003cbr\u003ewas not the country, they used a steel arch\u003cbr\u003ewith electric lights, and later a lamppost, this\u003cbr\u003ewas a modern event, the trees were not involved.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--from \"Blue Front\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlue Front\u003c\/i\u003e, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence--newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations\u003cbr\u003eabout her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Collins \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of four previous poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eSome Things Words Can Do\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-translator of two volumes of poetry from the Vietnamese. She teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9.2 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353461244153,"sku":"9781555974497","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/lYo5GMaASb9781555974497_e145aedf-d9a9-4847-aa15-bc16df1737e7.webp?v=1769824896","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/blue-front-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}