{"product_id":"9781934074824","title":"After Words","description":"223 The number of homicides in Baltimore City in 2010. \u003cbr\u003e 23 The age of Stephen Bradley Pitcairn, one of those victims.\u003cp\u003eNumb, we watch the news from a safe distance. No personal blood is shed. Yet, beyond statistics lie human emotions-pain that cuts deeper than any weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Shirley J. Brewer responded to the stabbing death of Stephen Pitcairn, who envisioned a career as a doctor. Instead, he died in the street just one block from Brewer's home in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrewer gives tragedy a voice. In words both spare and poignant, she creates an awareness of the staggering ways violence robs everyone-families, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and society as a whole. In After Words, we grieve. Our sorrow is specific, for Stephen and the Pitcairn family. It is also universal-for every person whose life has been lacerated by crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne knife, and we all bleed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apprentice House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50090705944816,"sku":"9781934074824","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934074824","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}