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[Thomas Glave] È Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh "A literary masterwork" according to Daniel Black. I've waited, some time now, for a book to represent the beauty, difficulty, and divinity of what it means to be black and gay in the world, and Thomas Glave provides this text as if having received a message from on high. It's meticulous in its articulation, peerless in its boldness, stellar in . Paul Maginnis said very good. komunyakaa takes reading and re-reading. very good. komunyakaa takes reading and re-reading. thanks]
| Title | : | Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617751707 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
Ultimately, his work is critical, yet filled with generosity and compassion."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Thomas Glave surely is one of the bravest of contemporary authorsHe is a fearless truth-teller whose essays in Among the Bloodpeople are fully, unhesitatingly engaged with his and our world."--New York Journal of Books"This is a collection that will leave you with chills; you will return to it not only for its sheer beauty, but also for its raw honesty, pain, and passion."--Lambda Literary Report"Glave writes beautifullyhisvoice deserves our attention."--The Gay & Lesbian Review"A wonderful anthology, interspersing personal essays with more academic-leaning articles."--CCLaP"Glave remarks on the state of an island as he sees it, and of a people whose legacies bear out in astonishing ways, employing prose that soothes while its subject matter sears genteel sensibilities."--Caribbean Beat"Glave crosses boundaries of genre and community, speaking with extraordinary candor and vulnerability variously as the American son of immigrants, as a Jamaican, as a professor, as a queer boy from the BronxWhat unifies these identities and these essays is the ferocity of Glave's voice, his sentence
"A literary masterwork" according to Daniel Black. I've waited, some time now, for a book to represent the beauty, difficulty, and divinity of what it means to be black and gay in the world, and Thomas Glave provides this text as if having received a message from on high. It's meticulous in its articulation, peerless in its boldness, stellar in . Paul Maginnis said very good. komunyakaa takes reading and re-reading. very good. komunyakaa takes reading and re-reading. thanks
But alongside the terror we witness, moments of sheer beauty seethe out of the landscape--not as a balm, but as needful epistles of reflectionGlave has done a heroic deed."--Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Neon Vernacular"Glave is a gifted stylistblessed with ambition, his own voice, and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave."--New York Times Book Review. A joy to read."--Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of Dreams in a Time of War"Glave's voice resonates in the plucked string holding each sentence together, an echo of James Baldwin and Jean Genet; his language carries the full freight of witnessHis language is seductive and regenerative, critical and humanizing, almost mathematically gauged and encompassing, and it never fails to hold us accountable. "A sensitive, sharp s
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