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Bread and Circus

By: Airea D. Matthews
Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews
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Beautifully and gently read by the author, Airea D. Matthews.

'Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity.' – Ocean Vuong

'Airea D. Matthews, winner of the 2016 Yale Younger Poets Prize, is a fine poet with a command of poetic and speaking voices that serves her well in this audiobook. Her poems tell stories of some parts of her life, including how she has shifted among different American cultures. She uses accents and changes in timbre to portray the various characters she has encountered—or, sometimes, embodied.' - AudioFile


Bread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and marginal poverty through a personal lens.

Examining 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.

©2023 Airea D. Matthews (P)2023 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
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