{"product_id":"what-noise-against-the-cane-volume-115-9780300256536","title":"What Noise Against the Cane: Volume 115","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.\"--Carl Phillips, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Desiree C. Bailey sings true in her debut. Wherever this voice goes a Caribbean sun travels with it transfiguring what a maroon might overhear--a call awaiting response.\"--Yusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, \u003ci\u003eWhat Noise Against the Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's \"poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesiree C. Bailey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the fiction chapbook \u003ci\u003eIn Dirt or Saltwater\u003c\/i\u003e and has been published in \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAcademy of American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and grew up in Queens, New York. Her website is http: \/\/desireecbailey.com. \u003cb\u003eCarl Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eWild Is the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePale Colors in a Tall Field\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThen the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494963581202,"sku":"9780300256536","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa969618-f55a-4aca-a76d-c33258c86c10.jpg?v=1730669216","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-noise-against-the-cane-volume-115-9780300256536","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}