{"product_id":"radiation-machine-gun-funk-9781944585549","title":"Radiation Machine Gun Funk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Smith asks: \"How is cancer like racism?\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFresh from the spoken-word tradition, Roger Smith investigates justice in the Black Lives Matter era, often seen through the lens of the cancer survivor. How to cure the cancers of our country? Smith takes up this challenge on every level: personal, familial, societal, spiritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoger Wyze Smith is a Brooklyn-born poet of Bajan heritage, raised in Queens, NY. A working-class, married father of three, Smith is the author of two self-published collections of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLaundromats \u0026amp; Lounges\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eChambers of a Beating Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). His third release \u003ci\u003eFrench Kissed Black Roses\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) won third place in the Local Gems NaPoWriMo chapbook contest. Smith was a 2012 Inspired Works Contest Winner, the 2017 Louis Armstrong House Archives Writer-in-Residence, and served as co-editor of poetry on \u003ci\u003eArmstrong Literary Online Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e 2018-2019. Smith holds a BA cum laude in English from Molloy College, an MFA in creative writing and literary translation from CUNY\/Queens College, and is a member of Lambda Iota Tau Literary Honor Society.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Word Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488937021714,"sku":"9781944585549","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f72364fa-3642-472c-b6a6-bdd485361816.jpg?v=1730485825","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/radiation-machine-gun-funk-9781944585549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}