{"product_id":"the-punishments-must-be-a-school-9781944585648","title":"The Punishments Must Be a School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry: Emily August's debut explodes our ideas about biraciality and why institutions are larded with violence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ferocious vision of personal and cultural histories enters us through dark-wooded stories, folkloric in their eerie clarity. This brilliant, heartbreaking book confronts race, power, violence, and how we shape one another, daring us to contemplate what it could mean to \"put the fear down.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily August is an Associate Professor of Literature at Stockton University. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets, her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She divides her time between Lake Superior's North Shore and the Atlantic Ocean's Jersey Shore.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Word Works","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649555927314,"sku":"9781944585648","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2b8ee2d7-f8c7-43d8-8666-fa1a24545378.jpg?v=1733268721","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-punishments-must-be-a-school-9781944585648","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}