{"product_id":"9780143137276-minor-notes-volume-2","title":"Minor Notes, Volume 2","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of\u003cbr\u003eexciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes \u003c\/i\u003eis an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps best understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe central theme of this volume is an archival exploration of young people’s poetry within the Black expressive tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57160010989942,"sku":"9780143137276","price":12.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39869720.jpg?v=1770265549","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780143137276-minor-notes-volume-2","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}