{"product_id":"a-fierce-green-place","title":"A Fierce Green Place","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection \u003cem\u003eJourney Poem\u003c\/em\u003e published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in \u003cem\u003ethe true blue of islands\u003c\/em\u003e, to the stories of freed slaves told in \u003cem\u003esubversive sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, \u003cem\u003eA Fierce Green Place\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a \"womb-space\" of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: \"Women together \/ in one place will \/ bleed in solidarity \/ till every last body \/ turn super bitch at once.\"","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833670840525,"sku":"9780811231046","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_a896f334-a41b-4c48-b9c5-293ccbc3939f.jpg?v=1790892765","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/a-fierce-green-place","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}