{"product_id":"aurora-americana-9780691250571","title":"Aurora Americana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAurora Americana\u003c\/i\u003e, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects on exile and return as he describes the experience of leaving North Africa and rediscovering a North America both recognizable and unrecognizable. What does it mean to feel exiled both away from and at “home”? What does it mean to miss something?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn forms such as the sonnet, ghazal, and triolet, \u003ci\u003eAurora Americana\u003c\/i\u003e takes up the distant and recent past of the United States, from Thomas Jefferson to the deadly “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia. But the book also meditates on smaller, momentary encounters across racial and national barriers, from evocations of Francophone Africa to a screening of \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e in Portugal for a mostly white audience. Allusions to Fannie Lou Hamer, Frantz Fanon, Prince, John Coltrane, Alessandro de’ Medici, Ahmed Zaki, Modesto Brocos y Gómez, Nasser Zefzafi, and others anchor the collection. With poems set at or near dawn, \u003ci\u003eAurora Americana \u003c\/i\u003eexplores an ominous yet hopeful new morning in America, one in which potential cataclysm exists alongside possibility and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Myronn Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42960460480630,"sku":"9780691250571","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d3bba642-64ea-467c-9e51-4d118b181001.jpg?v=1767805535","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/aurora-americana-9780691250571","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}