{"product_id":"my-yt-mama-paperback","title":"My Yt Mama - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMercedes Eng\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe follow up to Eng's BC Book Prize-winning \u003cem\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMercedes Eng is a Prairie-born mixee of Chinese and settler descent, teaching and writing in classrooms and in community. She lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples. Eng's praxis constellates experiential knowledge, community organizing, informal study, and a hybrid poetics that deploys multiple forms\/ideas of language from theory to memoir to historical and government documents to photography and visual art. Author of \u003ci\u003eMercenary English \u003c\/i\u003e(CUE Books 2013; Mercenary Press 2016; Talonbooks 2018), a long poem about violence and resistance in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, and \u003ci\u003ePrison Industrial Complex Explodes\u003c\/i\u003e (Talonbooks 2017), winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eJacket 2\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Downtown East\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e, on the sides of the Burrard and Granville Bridges as contributions to public art projects, and in the collectively produced chapbooks, r\/ally (No One Is Illegal), and \u003ci\u003eSurveillance and M'aidez\u003c\/i\u003e (Press Release). She is at work on a women's prison reader and a detective novel set in her grandfather's Chinatown supper club, circa 1948.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7.3 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700230066239,"sku":"9781772012552","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a1bc7022084b51dfbc323a979b57f829.webp?v=1765015955","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/my-yt-mama-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}