{"product_id":"count-each-breath-paperback","title":"Count Each Breath - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria James-Thiaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA health care system built on bias and inequity, a system of policing that snatches our sons \u0026amp; daughters from our arms, and a pandemic painting a target on our backs - this is 2020 through the eyes of a black woman with chronic illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you've ever been dismissed, ignored, suspected, or accused by a healthcare provider, you will relate to these verses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e----\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \"Corona-cation\"-created collection, Maria James-Thiaw delivers personal poetic reflections on chronic illness and mortality, race relations, and family history. The speaker's experiences form a colored chronicle of \"Despair-ities\" as fluidly surreal as Dali's melting clocks, in which she \"folds up her somedays\" in response to an immune system that \"unpeels her like fresh fruit,\" yet conjures music even from suffering (\"My sister's cells sickle\"). Her pain-pricked body is a voodoo doll. Even a right-wing white supremacist becomes a left-handed kindred soul whose \"nerves burn like crosses on each vertebra.\" Count Each Breath scrapes the poem-bone raw. Its verses burn with rage, against an uncertain future, an unredeemed past, and a bruised and bruising, black and blue-and white-America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Vernita Hall, author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 20, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719144116287,"sku":"9781958531037","price":16.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/30385554cbf89d49b1df90f301374634.webp?v=1765084548","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/count-each-breath-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}