{"product_id":"bailey-desiree-c-what-noise-against-the-cane-copy","title":"Bailey, Desiree C.: What Noise Against the Cane","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale University Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 13, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself​\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Noise Against the Cane\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey's \"poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44225974435863,"sku":"9780300256536","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/dcb.gif?v=1609375313","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/bailey-desiree-c-what-noise-against-the-cane-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}