{"product_id":"blue-hallelujahs-9781625579454","title":"Blue Hallelujahs","description":"What we remember is what we become. Rocking chairs holding mothers and \" animals that root the ground for peaches, bones and stars.\" In \u003ci\u003eBlue Hallelujahs\u003c\/i\u003e Cynthia Manick holds fast to what brought us across. These are not the things you will hear about Black people on the nightly news. But they remain the things that lock the arms of Black people around Black people when we need what we need to keep moving on. I am so grateful to this sweet box of sacred words.\" -Nikky Finney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eManick, Cynthia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Cynthia Manick is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet with a MFA in Creative Writing from the New School; she has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Fine Arts Work Center, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts \u0026amp; Sciences, Hedgebrook, Poets House, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was a 2014 finalist for the New York Foundation of Arts Fellowship in Poetry; serves as East Coast Editor of the independent press Jamii Publishing; and is Founder of the reading series Soul Sister Revue. Manick's work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eAfrican American Review, Bone Bouquet, Callaloo, Fjords Review, Kweli Journal, Muzzle Magazine, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, St. Ann's Review, Spillway Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360969527570,"sku":"9781625579454","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5a2980b-bee9-43e3-b76f-5671a111ca3c.jpg?v=1728368616","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blue-hallelujahs-9781625579454","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}