{"product_id":"primitive-the-art-and-life-of-horace-h-pippin-9781942683209","title":"Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin","description":"Biographical poems on artist Horace H. Pippin, who left an invaluable record of African American life during World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanice N. Harrington writes poetry and children's books. She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska, and both those settings, especially rural Alabama, figure largely in her writing. Her first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eEven the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 2011). Her children's books, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eGoing North\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), both from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, have won many awards and citations, including a listing among TIME Magazine's top 10 children's books of 2007 and the Ezra Jack Keats Award from the New York Public Library in 2005. A Cave Canem Fellow, she is also the winner of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry. Harrington's poetry appears regularly in American literary magazines. She has worked as a public librarian and as a professional storyteller, performing at festivals around the country, including the National Storytelling Festival. She currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644608024850,"sku":"9781942683209","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10864341-8798-4229-bc2c-1ff275d14827.jpg?v=1733117718","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/primitive-the-art-and-life-of-horace-h-pippin-9781942683209","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}