Description
| Product ID: | 9781035000821 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Bread and Circus |
| Authors: | Author: Airea D. Matthews |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A virtuosic, formally adept and often deeply affecting memoir-in-verse from a former winner of the prestigious Yale Younger Poet’s Prize. <p><b>Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity." – Ocean Vuong</b><br><br><i>Bread and Circus</i> is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens.<br><br>Examining the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on Airea D. Matthews's archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, <i>The Wealth of Nations</i>.<br><br>As the perspective shifts from watchful child, to teacher, mother, writer and citizen, <i>Bread and Circus</i> asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-08 |
