Introducing poet G. Winston James and Lyric, the newest offering from GrapeVinePress. This first collection adds James' name to the distinguished list of writers involved with and nurtured by Other Countries, the New York-based gay Black artists collective, whose authors have included such notables as Melvin Dixon, Craig G. Harris, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and Donald Woods. Lyric: Poems Along A Broken Road arises from this more than thirteen-year tradition of passion and excellence, and is one of the few full-length collections of poetry from an African-American gay male in nearly a decade. Lyric stirs the soul. Using images grounded in nature, it unveils and celebrates the wonderful in the everyday. Provocative and varied, it allows readers to travel along the "broken road" from exile to empowerment, loneliness to love, and loss to salvation. Not simply a random collection, but an honest and alchemic journey, Lyric weds the spiritual and the sensual, leading readers to a new place of understanding. It sings/speaks to all people who possess the capacity to hear the truth and to love.
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Clearly sincere and heartfelt...James assure[s] us that the loss of Assoto Saint and Essex Hemphill has left us bereft, but not abandoned. -- Lambda Book Report
Soothing, sensual and soulful. -- Between the Lines
The work of a major African-American voice. -- A Different Light Bookstore, NYC
Soothing, sensual and soulful. -- Between the Lines
The work of a major African-American voice. -- A Different Light Bookstore, NYC
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Lyric is the second offering from GrapeVinePress, whose inaugural publication, Low-Hanging Fruit by G.B. Mann, was released in 1997. The Los Angeles based press focuses on works which challenge fixed and lazy notions of what it means to be African-American.
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