{"product_id":"the-weather-that-kills","title":"The Weather That Kills","description":"Evocative imagery that leaps from the page with the force of gunfire.  In her first collection  Jones illuminates the secret joy beneath grim turbulence that propels these poems into her readers hearts and minds. Exploring the daily material that makes a life being lived with a fluent intelligence  she connects the personal to political  self to other  then to now. Rooted in the complexity of the American experience  she traces the presence of the human spirit in art  history  geography  politics and popular culture with riveting shifts of scale and focus. The Perfect Lipstick moves from a consideration of Christopher Columbus to the slave trade and then leaps assuredly to her favorite shade of lipstick  Sherry Velour  whose name suggests Black men in sequined dresses and the click of new words\/ in the new world where the most dangerous of dreams\/ come true. In Glad All Over  the poet  an African American  recounts her childhood experience of the civil rights struggle in the South during the 60s in a quiet  truthful telling that gives tribute to our familys ordinary courage and creates a compelling  defining image of a pivotal time. Publishers Weekly","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44923655618613,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566890292","price":62.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1566890292.jpg?v=1768647098","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-weather-that-kills","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}