{"product_id":"song-of-thieves-9780822958130","title":"Song of Thieves","description":"Song of Thieves delves into issues of racial identity and politics, the immigrant experience, and the search for \"home\" and family histories. In this follow-up to her award-winning debut collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean background to play a haunting and soulful tune.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shara McCallum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 5.84w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822958130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2003 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Jamaica, and born to a Jamaican father and Venezuelan mother, \u003cb\u003eShara McCallum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six books published in the US and UK. Her most recent, \u003ci\u003eNo Ruined Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2022 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. McCallum's poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.\u003ci\u003e La historia es un cuarto\/History is a Room\u003c\/i\u003e, an anthology of her poems translated into Spanish by Adalber Salas Hernández, was published in 2021 in Mexico. In addition to Spanish, McCallum's poems have been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, and Dutch and set to music by composers Marta Gentilucci and Gity Razaz. Awards for her work include the Silver Musgrave Medal from the Jamaican government, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the US Library of Congress, and an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, among others. McCallum is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at Penn State University and a faculty member in the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA Program. From 2021-22, she served as the Penn State Laureate. She is a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow. WEBSITE: www.sharamccallum.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44422956482675,"sku":"9780822958130","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1673e108-0986-47bb-8174-35d21b75a92f.jpg?v=1772543174","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/song-of-thieves-9780822958130","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}