{"product_id":"sacred-spells-collected-works-paperback","title":"Sacred Spells: Collected Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAssotto Saint\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichele Karlsberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eSacred Spells\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey figure in LGBTQ +, African-American and Haitian art and literary culture of the 1980s and early 1990s. Assotto Saint was a trailblazer in the 1980s and early '90s who heavily contributed to increasing the visibility of contemporary Black queerness in literature and theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 8.66 x 5.67 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736103555135,"sku":"9781643621562","price":27.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1ebdc8b13949ec89d260d98d8c0a595c.webp?v=1765145690","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/sacred-spells-collected-works-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}