{"product_id":"blue-in-green-9780226783888","title":"Blue in Green","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that address interpersonal connections while navigating life and care amid disease and disaster.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Collaboration runs through the heart of this collection. Human relationships--particularly in families--shape the poems in \u003ci\u003eBlue in Green\u003c\/i\u003e, as they consider how the question of what we expect from one another evolves into a question of what we owe. When cancer overshadows the ordinary--engrossing the labor of love, work, and friendship--disease becomes a collaborator and proposes new rules of exchange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The forms of Elliott's works highlight reciprocity. Here you'll find ekphrastic poems that describe modern jazz songs, letters and letter fragments, and free verse poems in wildly variable line lengths. \"When I was a wave,\" the speaker repeats, each time telling a different story about intimacy and risk. \u003ci\u003eBlue in Green\u003c\/i\u003e moves through the struggle of processing the damaging interpersonal reverberations of racism, sexism, and environmental damage, while navigating intertwined personal and political incarnations of care. While a slow-growing disease burns its way through the speaker's body, these poems reveal the feeling of perpetually existing in the shadow of catastrophe and document the slow and strange process of coming to terms with that way of living. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10197638\"\u003eChiyuma Elliott\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226783888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022678388X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChiyuma Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of \u003ci\u003eAt Most\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Winter League\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVigil\u003c\/i\u003e. A former Stegner Fellow, Elliott has published poems in the \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Cave Canem, and the Vermont Studio Center. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696525381869,"sku":"9780226783888","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d38e7f97-10a6-4c43-865f-a10cd743e238.jpg?v=1649881096","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/blue-in-green-9780226783888","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}