{"product_id":"ardency-a-chronicle-of-the-amistad-rebels-paperback","title":"Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Young\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the \u003ci\u003eAmistad\u003c\/i\u003e rebellion.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship \u003ci\u003eAmistad, Ardency\u003c\/i\u003e begins with \"Buzzard,\" a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In \"Correspondence,\" we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in \"Witness,\" a libretto chanted by Cinque, the rebel leader, who yearns for his family and freedom while eloquently evoking the Amistads' conversion and life in America. As Young conjures this array of characters, interweaving the liberation cry of Negro spirituals and the indoctrinating wordplay of American primers, he delivers his signature songlike immediacy at the service of an epic built on the ironies, violence, and virtues of American history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKEVIN YOUNG is the author of six previous collections of poetry and the editor of Library of America's \u003ci\u003eJohn Berryman: Selected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets anthologies \u003ci\u003eBlue Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJazz Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eJelly Roll\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and \u003ci\u003eFor the Confederate Dead\u003c\/i\u003e he won the 2007 Quill Award for poetry. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727266615359,"sku":"9780375711619","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f23ada1b5fd306ffa3eb9a248d809b64.webp?v=1765114167","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ardency-a-chronicle-of-the-amistad-rebels-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}