{"product_id":"mountain-spells-poems","title":"Mountain Spells: Poems","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMountain Spells: Poems\u003c\/h1\u003eToussaint St Negritude,Toussaint St Negritude\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Rootstock Publishing\u003cbr\u003eOctober 22 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781578692002\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1578692008\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry Winner, 2025 International Firebird Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer poet laureate of Belfast, Maine, Afrofuturist\/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems, featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks once called \"full of sweet sounds and surprises.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the inspiration of life, jazz, and nature, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMountain Spells\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is about the intrinsic clarity of emancipation, expressing all found intersections of what the author sees and experiences, and how this Black\/queer\/high-hat-wearing artist envisions the world through the lens of spirituality, the African diaspora, and nature as his home. Each poem, written in Vermont, expresses the whole cosmos of collective liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I listened to the birds, to the sky, what the leaves were telling me,\" says St. Negritude, and captured it all in improvisational, freeform, and musical poetry, lovely and changing as the seasons themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67393079803949,"sku":"WHS-e4c8fe1e152f47c7a49b695be33c4ba1","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_718a8cb3-33a7-4430-a047-1464e7bdd8ad.jpg?v=1787371177","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/mountain-spells-poems","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}