{"product_id":"providential-poems","title":"Providential Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Channer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Providential Poems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 103\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest-selling writer Colin Channer's debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Caribbean policeman is a character both foreign and familiar at the center of this intimate debut poetry collection. Combining Jamaican patois and American English, it tells the story of violence, loss, and recovery in the wake of colonialism.\" --\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, One of 19 Books to Pick Up This October\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Extremely worthwhile . . . Channer brings an Olive Senior like narrativity to these sharp character sketches, and by deploying his keen novelist's eye he can trace the actions and effects of power on these men and their families in interesting and compelling language.\" --\u003ci\u003eAnthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanner's debut poetry collection achieves an intimate and lyric meditation on family, policing, loss, and violence, but the work is enlivened by humor, tenderness, and the rich possibilities that come from honest reflection. Combined with a capacity to offer physical landscapes with painterly sensitivity and care, a graceful mining of the nuances of Jamaican patwa and American English, and a judicious use of metaphor and similie, \u003ci\u003eProvidential\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of \"heartical\" insight and vulnerability.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Not since Claude McKay's \u003ci\u003eConstab Ballads of 1912\u003c\/i\u003e has a writer attempted to tackle the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman. Now, over a century later, Channer draws on his own knowledge of Jamaican culture, on his complex relationship with his father (a Jamaican policeman), and frames these poems within the constantly humane principles of Rasta and reggae. The poems within \u003ci\u003eProvidential\u003c\/i\u003e manage to turn the intricate relationships between a man and his father, a man and his mother, and man and his country, and a man and his children into something akin to grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617754050\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.9 Inches, Length: 6.1 Inches, Weight: 0.4 Pounds, Width: 0.4 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin Channer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801807315251,"sku":"9781617754050","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/27302733482763.jpg?v=1785981281","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/providential-poems","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}