{"id":36417,"date":"2014-05-08T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36417"},"modified":"2017-04-07T02:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:04:23","slug":"the-collected-poems-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36417","title":{"rendered":"The Collected Poems of Ai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail.aspx?id=24841\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Collected Poems of Ai<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\" target=\"_blank\">W. W. Norton &amp; Company, Inc.<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 2013<br \/>\n464 pages<br \/>\n6.6 \u00d7 9.6 in<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-07490-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ai_(poet)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ai<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an Introduction by:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/YusefKomunyakaa.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yusef Komunyakaa<\/strong><\/a>, Global Distinguished Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail.aspx?id=24841\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.wwnorton.com\/cms\/books\/9780393074901_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25961\" target=\"_blank\">untimely death in 2010<\/a>, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as \u201cone of the most singular voices of her generation\u201d (<em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.<\/p>\n<p><em>from \u201cThe Cockfighter\u2019s Daughter\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I found my father,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> face down, in his homemade chili<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and had to hit the bowl<\/em><br \/>\n<em> with a hammer to get it off,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> then scrape the pinto beans<\/em><br \/>\n<em> and chunks of ground beef<\/em><br \/>\n<em> off his face with a knife.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as \u201cone of the most singular voices of her generation\u201d (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,1617],"tags":[12462,12463,1300,17316],"class_list":["post-36417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-ai","tag-florence-anthony","tag-w-w-norton-company","tag-yusef-komunyakaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53291,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36417\/revisions\/53291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}