{"product_id":"portrait-paperback","title":"Portrait - 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\u003eGillian Lynn Katz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillian Lynn Katz's evocative collection of poetry includes over twenty poems about her experiences growing up under Apartheid in South Africa. In her poem \"Robben Island\" Ms. Katz accounts for her visit to Mandela's prison cell and writes of Mandela, \"he was more prince than prisoner.\" She reflects on motherhood in several other poems, and in her poem \"Portrait,\" the title of this collection, she writes about breaking the cycle of abuse in the next generation. In her prize-winning poem \"Midnight\" the teenage author writes that she \"needed questions answered.\" In these poems, Ms. Katz grapples with the trauma of emigration and the difficulties of creating a sense of home in a new country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Sandy Chapin, lyricist of \u003ci\u003eCat's in the Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eEntries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Gillian Lynn Katz's poetry collection, \u003ci\u003ePortrait, \u003c\/i\u003e is like walking through two interconnected gardens: one in South Africa, the other in the United States. Ms. Katz's gardens grew from stories, both heartrending and resplendent in color. Roots that survived Apartheid, and being uprooted to another continent, growing stronger after each storm, becoming poems that speak about injustice and sorrow, as well as introspection, joy, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Patricia Carragon, author of \u003ci\u003eInnocence\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cupcake Chronicles \u003c\/i\u003e curator and editor-in-chief of Brownstone Poets, Brooklyn, NY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vital center of\u003ci\u003e Portrait, \u003c\/i\u003eby Gillian Lynn Katz, is the old and new South Africa, a portrait as clear-eyed, sensuous, tough, sorrowful, and ironic as the country's echoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer personal irony becomes literary irony in these lines from the title poem: \"The Galleria Mall photographer in White Plains photographed me for the article I wrote: 'Witness to the Birth and Death of My Country.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith frequently explosive imagery and language, the poems have tentacles that extend from titles like the epic \"Chicken Run\" to \"Drumbeat Cure for Aids\" to \"Ode to the Fish Who Nibbled Bin Laden's Brain,\" to poems of private dark and extravagant light. Gillian Katz's emotional geography is never too far from Johannesburg, even in Scarsdale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Estha Weiner, author of \u003ci\u003eat the last minute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351616831737,"sku":"9781950462704","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/TGExcFk0NlgzdUs4aytLZU5vWVFuQT09.webp?v=1769800645","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/portrait-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}