{"product_id":"minor-notes-volume-2","title":"Minor Notes, Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy repeatedly found themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they came across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals whose work has been neglected or entirely ignored, even by scholars of Black poetry. \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes \u003c\/i\u003eis an excavation initiative that recovers and curates archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and aims to bridge scholarly interest with the growing general audience who reads, writes, and circulates poetry within that tradition. As \u003ci\u003eMinor Notes\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies, the work of contemporary Black poets is perhaps \u003ci\u003ebest\u003c\/i\u003e understood through the lens of a long-standing tradition of the poet as witness, as prophetic voice, as communal bard, and as scholar of the everyday and the miraculous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe central theme of volume 2 is an archival exploration of young people’s poetry within the Black expressive tradition.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57495472046453,"sku":"9780143137276","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780143137276.jpg?v=1786618143","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/minor-notes-volume-2","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}