{"product_id":"unmet-9781771966573","title":"Unmet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is what comes of taking dreams \/ off the horizon. It is the sun \/ or nothing else, you would scream \/ if you weren't caught up in the chorus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen, \u003ci\u003eUNMET \u003c\/i\u003eis a poetry collection that explores themes of frustration, justice, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx, Canadian, immigrant, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics, from Wallace Stevens to Tony Hoagland and Diane Seuss, roberts's musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality, respectability politics, intimate partner violence, and ecological crisis, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what could be, negotiating the past without losing hope for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003estephanie roberts\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003erushes from the river disappointment\u003c\/em\u003e, a Quebec Writers' Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, the winner of \u003cem\u003eThe Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\u003c\/em\u003e, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies, in print and online, throughout Canada, the US, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada, Panama, and the US, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51253974106386,"sku":"9781771966573","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5bb34eee-4397-428f-b147-8405b459d27d.jpg?v=1746302055","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unmet-9781771966573","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}