{"product_id":"9780864925138-i-i","title":"I \u0026 I","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the “Boogie Nights” era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. \u003ci\u003eI \u0026amp; I\u003c\/i\u003e smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for “you and me,” “I \u0026amp; I” expresses the oneness of God and man, the oneness of two people or the distinction between body and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn George Elliott Clarke’s hands, this existential aesthetic crystallizes in a love story of Gothic grit. The narrative gives this verse novel shape; the poetry makes it sing, straddling folk ballad, soul, and pop music, all the while moaning the blues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55607666114934,"sku":"9780864925138","price":14.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34322909.jpg?v=1747262818","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780864925138-i-i","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}