Sacred Spells (eBook)

Collected Works

Assotto Saint (Autor)

Michele Karlsberg (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Nightboat Books (Verlag)
978-1-64362-219-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation, his Haitian heritage and a politics of liberation, to weave together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death. Influential to contemporary writers such as Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, and Melvin Dixon, Sacred Spellsis Saint's crucial legacyfive hundred incandescent pages of painful, lyric writing that exemplifies the visceral, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice thats integral to Black and trans activist movements in the United States, both historic and present.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Poet, poetry, poetic, poem, poems, verse, trans, sexuality, LGBTQ+, plays, fiction, performance texts, incantation, African American, Black, Haitian, heritage, timely collection music, heritage, politics, politics of liberation, liberation, tapestry of literature, celebratory, incandescent, pain, five hundred, visceral, trans, activist, The United States, U.S.A, AIDS
• ISBN-10: 1-64362-219-6 / 1643622196
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64362-219-4 / 9781643622194