Bread and Circus

Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity." - Ocean Vuong Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imagining to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens. Examininng the experience of the US urban Black community from a variety of perspectives, it draws heavily on the author''s archival research on Adam Smith, the eighteenth-century Scottish economist, as well as his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations . As the perspective shifts from watchful child, to teacher, mother, writer and citizen, Bread and Circus asks what it is to have survived, indeed to have flourished, and at what cost.

Product details

• Authors: Airea Matthews, Airea D Matthews, Airea D. Matthews, MATTHEWS AIREA, Matthews Airea D.
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781035000821
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3500082-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 197 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philadelphia, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Pennsylvania, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / American / African American & Black, c 2020 to c 2029, Lyric / Lyrical styles