{"product_id":"things-i-must-have-known-paperback","title":"Things I Must Have Known - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eA. B. Spellman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exuberant, generous collection touching on creativity and fatherhood, racism and workplace politics, A.B. Spellman's poems address the most important personal and public events of the last seventy years-of how it felt to grow up Black in a segregated America, of the transformational experience of hearing live jazz, of the give-and-take of a long marriage, and of the importance and inspiration of good friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe former Deputy Director of the National Endowment for the Arts and a founding member of the Black Arts Movement, A.B. Spellman has also been a regular commentator on jazz for NPR and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThings I Must Have Known\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFour Jazz Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, a classic in the field of jazz criticism. During his thirty-year tenure at the NEA, Spellman deferred poetry publication resulting in this long overdue, first full-length collection--a masterwork of previously unpublished poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.9 x 6.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43424092127299,"sku":"9781566892117","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/things-i-must-have-known-paperback","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}