Books Archive
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Billie Allen
Posted on July 19, 2011 | No CommentsShe knew me as I was. And she knew, too, the artist I’m writing about currently: the late filmmaker and director, Bill Gunn. The two Bills. Companeros. She of the beautiful mind and skin, he of the same. I met... -
God Bless You, Gertrude
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsYou have only to open the Library of America’s sterling edition of Gertrude Stein’s “Writings, 1903-1932,” to find what you are looking for in terms of inspiration. She changed everything, and she can change your mind with a glance of... -
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsThe young author of “Harlem is Nowhere,” (http://sharifarhodespitts.com/harlem-is-nowhere/) in repose. In New Orleans. At home in the world, which is “nowhere,” that is, an ever present state, her home being herself, sometimes... -
Black Swans
Posted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsSometimes he would go to the library and dream. His body was not divisible from the aura of books. Without knowing how, the books came to him, not their contents, exactly, but the ideas they strove so hard to contain.... -
Arthur
Posted on May 12, 2011 | No CommentsThe last image is of Ras Makonnen, Hallie Salisie’s father, Rimbaud’s close friend. Always this way with Arthur: the older man to learn from, and as protector, not least from his mother, who sought to destroy him and was in...
