{"product_id":"blood-of-the-air-poems-9780810141711","title":"Blood of the Air: Poems","description":"\u003ci\u003eBlood of the Air\u003c\/i\u003e creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The title poem--one of several found poems--calls attention to stories told in the wake of sexual violence. In \"She Said,\" the collection's longest piece, language culled from the transcript of a seventeenth-century rape trial feels eerily familiar. Formally dexterous and refreshingly bold, the poems in \u003ci\u003eBlood of the Air\u003c\/i\u003e are urgent, moving, and fiercely imagined. Though blood can flow from the site of a wound, Codjoe seems to say, blood is also a sign of life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMA CODJOE\u003c\/b\u003e has been awarded support from the Cave Canem, Saltonstall, Jerome, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundations as well as from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Crosstown Arts, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony. Her recent poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Common\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMassachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Indiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Codjoe is the recipient of a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer's Award, the \u003ci\u003eGeorgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e's 2018 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, a 2019 DISQUIET Literary Prize, and a 2019 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50902222340370,"sku":"9780810141711","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b7be3421-d05d-4325-85dd-243fe5afd266.jpg?v=1738450079","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-of-the-air-poems-9780810141711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}