{"product_id":"mend-9780813176277","title":"Mend","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, the names of all but three of these women are lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  Mend: Poems, Kwoya Fagin Maples gives voice to the enslaved women named in Sims's autobiography: Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a powerful book that illuminates one more complex, disturbing chapter of the African-American experience, a nineteenth-century white male physician's gynecological experiments on female slaves. MEND is a brutal story, lyrically told in the voices of three of those women, and its author has memorably created both a painful reminder and a beautiful tribute.\"\" - Kim Addonizio, author of  \u003ci\u003eMortal Trash: Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577542807895,"sku":"9780813176277","price":17.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813176277.jpg?v=1746095751","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mend-9780813176277","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}