{"product_id":"equinox","title":"Equinox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA brilliant new collection by the great Caribbean writers and scholar: “an engaging, deep-hearted, strong-spirited, and richly musical poet” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Multicultural Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEquinox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEquinox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e contains poems written in Brathwaite’s singular Barbadian vernacular and visionary style―poems about the Middle Passage, the natural world, Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston, the Kumina dance in Jamaica, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, and Breughel’s painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” among many tidalectic topics. The lyrical poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEquinox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e weave together history and culture with the imagery of Brathwaite’s native Barbados, weaving a lush tapestry of injustice, redemption, and hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kamau Brathwaite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45499417297072,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/71KIsotRM2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1785764002","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/equinox","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}