Date of Birth: Poems

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ISBN-10: 0892555696
ISBN-13: 9780892555697
Publisher: Persea Books
Publish Date: 04/11/2023
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.59" W, 0.25" H

Date of Birth: Poems

byShawn R Jones

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Price: $15.95

Overview

The poems in this bracing debut do not shy away from incomprehensible tragedies: racism, poverty, abuse, and addiction, incest, and infidelities of the body and mind. Yet the world depicted by Shawn R. Jones has moments of humor and playfulness–for example, in a litany of indelible nicknames of the members of her childhood cohort in Atlantic City. If Date of Birth is heart-wrenching in its journalistic reporting of suffering, it is also a testament to the strength and resilience of the figures it portrays.

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Details

ISBN-10: 0892555696
ISBN-13: 9780892555697
Publisher: Persea Books
Publish Date: 04/11/2023
Dimensions: 8.01" L, 5.59" W, 0.25" H
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