{"product_id":"9780864925138","title":"I \u0026 I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry and Dartmouth Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \"Boogie Nights\" era of the 1970s, Betty Browning and her lover, boxer Malcolm Miles, travel from the fog-anchored grime of Halifax, Nova Scotia, to sunburnt Corpus Christi, Texas, and back — meeting tragedy and bloodshed along the way. \u003ci\u003eI \u0026amp; I\u003c\/i\u003e smoulders with love, lust, violence, and the excruciating repercussions of racism, sexism, and disgust. Rastafarian for \"you and me,\" \"I \u0026amp; I\" expresses the oneness of God and man, the oneness of two people or the distinction between body and spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn George Elliott Clarke's hands, this existential aesthetic crystallizes in a love story of Gothic grit. The narrative gives this verse novel shape; the poetry makes it sing, straddling folk ballad, soul, and pop music, all the while moaning the blues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarke, George Elliott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Local)","offer_id":44304830234848,"sku":"","price":14.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_dd37904e-1917-4c8b-ab48-5ead9592a53d.jpg?v=1698684391","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780864925138","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}