{"product_id":"song-for-almeyda-and-song-for-anninho-9780807029909","title":"Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Jones’s great achievement is to reckon with both history and interiority, and to collapse the boundary between them.”—Anna Wiener, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eCorregidora\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Healing\u003c\/i\u003e—two epic poems, the love songs of fugitive slaves, set in 17th-century Brazil; continuing the unforgettable journey told in Gayl Jones’s masterwork, \u003ci\u003ePalmares\u003c\/i\u003e (2021)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, offers 2 books in one with this volume of poetry. Jones renders the saga of Palmares, a foundational tale in the annals of colonial terrorism and Black resistance, in verse, told in the voices of the characters in her epic novel \u003ci\u003ePalmares\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 17th century, the fugitive slave enclave of Palmares was destroyed by Portuguese colonists. Amid the flight and re-enslavement of Palmares’s inha","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527752229207,"sku":"9780807029909","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780807029909.jpg?v=1731869103","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/song-for-almeyda-and-song-for-anninho-9780807029909","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}