Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the … - Kwame Dawes

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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

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Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer. . . There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

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I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

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The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.

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For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

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Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

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With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

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