Sacred spells : collected works /
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 weaves together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death. Influential to contemporary writers such...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat books,
[2023].
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| Summary: | 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 weaves 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 Spells is Saint's crucial legacy-five hundred incandescent pages of painful, lyric writing that exemplifies the visceral, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice that's integral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide, both historic and present. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1643621564 9781643621562 |