{ "item_title" : "Blue Front", "item_author" : [" Martha Collins "], "item_description" : "A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collinsthe victim hanged, though not on a tree, thiswas not the country, they used a steel archwith electric lights, and later a lamppost, thiswas a modern event, the trees were not involved.--from Blue Front Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence--newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculationsabout her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/55/597/449/155597449X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.00", "online_price" : "17.00", "our_price" : "17.00", "club_price" : "17.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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