{"product_id":"difficult-fruit-paperback","title":"Difficult Fruit - 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\u003eLauren K. Alleyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDifficult Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e grapples with personal experience - with naming and claiming the 'fruits' of a specific journey into womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis journey is one which includes coming to terms with violence and loss, celebrating love and connection, and standing witness in the world that shaped that journey. It is a collection of poems about coming into self-knowledge - of fighting for and winning personhood as a woman in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLauren K. Alleyne\u003c\/strong\u003e is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Her writing has been awarded the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize at Cornell, and other awards, and her poems have been published in \u003cem\u003eBlack Arts Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Caribbean Writer \u003c\/em\u003eamong other journals. She is co-editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eFrom the Heart of Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e (Vivisphere, 9781587761423), and author of \u003cem\u003eDawn in the Kaatskills\u003c\/em\u003e (Longshore Press, 9780000100757), a chapbook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren K. Alleyne is an assistant professor and the poet in residence at the University of Dubuque. She lives in Dubuque, Iowa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351197565177,"sku":"9781845232276","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UkRNRkUwMmlSUlhoOC9xcjBPVmgvZz09.webp?v=1769795617","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/difficult-fruit-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}