{"product_id":"black-creole-chronicles-9781608012497","title":"Black Creole Chronicles","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho are Black Creoles? Saloy's new poems address ancestral connections to contemporary life, traditions celebrated, New Orleans Black life today, Louisiana Black life today, enduring and surviving hurricanes, romance, #BlackLivesMatter, #wematter, as well as poems of the pandemic lockdown from New Orleans. Saloy's new collection of verse advances and updates narratives of Black life to now, including day-to-day Black speech, the lives of culture keepers, and family tales. These poems detail cultural and historical memory of enslavement not taught and offer healing and hope for tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMona Lisa Saloy, author, folklorist, educator, and scholar, is an award-winning author of contemporary Creole culture in poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina. As a folklorist, Saloy documents sidewalk songs, jump-rope rhymes, and clap-hand games to discuss the importance of play. As a poet, her first book, \u003ci\u003eRed Beans \u0026amp; Ricely Yours\u003c\/i\u003e, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the PEN\/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. She's written on the significance of the Black Beat poets, on the African American Toasting Tradition, on Black \u0026amp; Creole talk, and on conditions and keeping Creole after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Her work captures the day-to-day New Orleans speech, contemplates family dynamics, celebrates New Orleans, and all in a way everyday people can enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of New Orleans Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619477885202,"sku":"9781608012497","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_33433a16-1ba3-4eab-bec0-c1d150c44bf2.jpg?v=1732550448","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-creole-chronicles-9781608012497","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}