{"id":4283,"date":"2018-12-05T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:41:18","slug":"4283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/4283\/","title":{"rendered":"New PhD Student Afua Ansong publishes chapbook titled\u00a0American Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">New PhD Student Afua Ansong recently completed her first publication, a chapbook titled&nbsp;<i class=\"\">American Mercy<\/i>&nbsp;(Finishing Line Press, 2019)<i class=\"\">.<\/i>The book presents poetry that discusses what it means to have ownership over a space (both for animals and human beings) and the contention for the continuation of culture.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Reviewers have called this &#8220;startling first collection&#8221; &#8220;both oracle and call to action for our troubled times&#8221; (Michelle Yasmine Valladares) and said of her &#8220;urgent, intimate poems&#8221;: &#8221; Call it original. Call it extraordinary. Call it a wondrous prayer of moral clarity, oracular language, understated humor, Ghanaian heritage, and a gift for the illuminating question&#8221; (Julie Sheehan).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Read more and pre-order the chapbook on the press website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finishinglinepress.com\/product\/american-mercy-by-afua-ansong\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New PhD Student Afua Ansong recently completed her first publication, a chapbook titled&nbsp;American Mercy&nbsp;(Finishing Line Press, 2019).The book presents poetry that discusses what it means to have ownership over a space (both for animals and human beings) and the contention for the continuation of culture.&nbsp; &nbsp; Reviewers have called this &#8220;startling first collection&#8221; &#8220;both oracle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":4285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}