A Deeper Shade of Sex: The Best in Black Erotic Writing [Paperback]

Reginald Martin Ph.D. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 26, 2006

A Deeper Shade of Sex explores erotic possibilities as imagined and reported by more than 70 authors, both well known and emerging. This collection, including poetry, fiction, and essays, covers a compelling breadth of styles and emotions in contemporary African American writing.

As editor Reginald Martin notes, "The pieces collected in this volume throb with the tempo and tenor of writers who have defined the erotic verve of our urban times. Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, New Orleans — every place there is a bus line or dance club has produced African-American eroticism . . ."

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About the Author

Lenard D. Moore, the most acclaimed African-American haiku writer of the twentieth century was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. degree from Shaw University. Moore is a poet, playwright, essayist, book reviewer, and fiction writer. While he is best known for his book Forever Home, he is also the author of Desert Storm: A Brief History. He is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African-American Writer's Collective and is the founding publishing editor of Earlobe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Blue Moon Books; 1st Blue Moon Books Ed edition (January 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562015044
• ISBN-13: 978-1562015046
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,137,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Didn't even realize..., June 23, 2010

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L. Bell (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Deeper Shade of Sex: The Best in Black Erotic Writing (Paperback)

Allow me to begin with the silly reason why I'm a little unhappy with this book....because it only has 228 pages, not the 400 something that is listed.

Now, I was greatly mislead...

But it wasn't by this book. It was by authors such as Zane and others who write about sex using great physical detail.

Sadly, as a 19 year old, I didn't even realize that there was another side to Erotica. Now that I do, I can't get enough of it.

If you are a person looking for a novel to get off on...one that will give you ideas to try out on your Friday night date...this is definitely not the book for you.

I am so happy that I purchased it, despite the fact that I believed it would be a book on the best of Sexual writing, not erotic...there is a huge difference!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When Sex Breaks Out, March 16, 2006

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Conrad R. Pegues - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Deeper Shade of Sex: The Best in Black Erotic Writing (Paperback)

I must admit when I first received a copy of Reginald Martin's A Deeper Shade of Sex: The Best in Black Erotic Writing, I didn't quite know what to expect. I had never really been exposed to erotic literature as a genre. I only had my own expectations of something possibly [...]at best. It was not.

Much to my surprise I found the book a voluptuous and tantalizing roller coaster ride of desire and lost desire for a human connection in the world. A Deeper Shade of Sex contains poetry and literature, essays and personal explorations of the erotic breaking through the every day experiences of people to awaken them to its overwhelming power and presence in our lives. From Linda White's piece Encountering Ecstasy about the body's sudden and undaunted desire for a perfect stranger on the bus to Lovechild's excursion into an embodied self revelation, to Valinda Johnson Browns' Shrimp Etouffee where dinner becomes an erotic play to Glenn Johnson's Winnefred's Mother where a girlfriend's mother wants a little more of her daughter's beau than help with the holiday dishes; and many more.

Reginald Martin has done a wonderful job pulling over 30 pieces together to widen and recollect a lost sense of the embodied self in and out of the African American community and lifts the veil of shame and disgust with the body's natural organic workings to show us that our dark bodies are gifts to be enjoyed, not walking sins.
C. R. Pegues
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a great read, May 2, 2006

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John K. Larkin "JLarkin" (NY) - See all my reviews
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I didn't know what to expect from the book but I was very impressed by the level of honesty. The book goes right to the heart of what we all feel at one time or another. This is a well-rounded book that makes you want to write your own story. I'm waiting for the next one. JLarkin