{"product_id":"9781938235863","title":"Reparations Now!","description":"\u003cp\u003eReparations Now! asks for what's owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn formal and non-traditional poems, award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones calls for long-overdue reparations to the Black descendants of enslaved people in the United States of America. In this, her third collection, Jones deftly takes on the worst of today—state-sanctioned violence, pandemic-induced crises, and white silence—all while uplifting Black joy. These poems explore trauma past and present, cultural and personal: the lynching of young, pregnant Mary Turner in 1918; the current white nationalist political movement; a case of infidelity. These poems, too, are a celebration of Black life and art: a beloved grandmother in rural Alabama, the music of James Brown and Al Green, and the soil where okra, pole beans, and collards thrive thanks to her father's hands. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy exploring the history of a nation where \"Black oppression's not happenstance; it's the law,\" Jones links past harm to modern heartache and prays for a peaceful world where one finds paradise in the garden in the afternoon with her family, together, safe, and worry-free.  While exploring the ways we navigate our relationships with ourselves and others, Jones holds us all accountable, asking us to see the truth, to make amends, to honor one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hub City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48840003944683,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":29.29,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781938235863","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}