{"product_id":"the-broken-world-9780252065507","title":"The Broken World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelected by Yusef Komunyakaa \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Marcus Cafagña is a poet who shies at nothing, who will\u003cbr\u003e  not turn away from what he sees--ordinary people struggling against, and\u003cbr\u003e  sometimes breaking on, the wheel of their fate. \u003ci\u003eThe Broken World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  is a deeply humane and accomplished first book--probing, watchful, compassionate,\u003cbr\u003e  and necessary.\u003cbr\u003e  -- Edward Hirsch\u003cbr\u003e  I challenge anyone to be unmoved by \u003ci\u003eThe Broken World.\u003c\/i\u003e Cafagña\u003cbr\u003e  never gives up in these difficult, heart-rending poems. -- Jim Daniels,\u003cbr\u003e  editor of \u003ci\u003eLetters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Broken World,\u003c\/i\u003e the powerful debut of a poet of great depth\u003cbr\u003e  and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance--a\u003cbr\u003e  distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis\u003cbr\u003e  center. By the\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400466768215,"sku":"9780252065507","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-broken-world-9780252065507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}