{"product_id":"akintade-oluwagbeye-peace-the-goat-pb","title":"[09\/17\/26] Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Peace: The Goat's Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eMetatron Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 17, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Goat’s Tongue is an interdisciplinary poetry collection that follows a girl, a goat, and an owl through the landscapes of vulnerability, belonging, memory, rejection, and forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in Yoruba oral literature and born from Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye’s durational performance work Ori. Ara. Emi. (Ori. Ori. My Head), the collection moves between English and a symbolic language created by the author. Through poetry, folklore, performance, and visual script, Akintade-Oluwagbeye transforms a childhood memory of silence, dirt, goats, and isolation into a mythic inquiry into what it means to speak, to remember, and to become human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunting, tender, and formally inventive, The Goat’s Tongue is a work of ancestral imagination and embodied poetics — a book about the hunger to belong, the pain of rejection, and the strange, sacred work of finding a voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in childhood memory, ancestral knowledge, and postcolonial questions of isolation and communication, The Goat’s Tongue bridges oral literature and the contemporary page, offering a haunting, intimate, and formally inventive work about the struggle to speak, the hunger for belonging, and the transformative power of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45484224806935,"sku":"9781988355856","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1787009937-900.png?v=1788732718","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/akintade-oluwagbeye-peace-the-goat-pb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}