It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends

Overview

InIt’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls “Learning the Name Dad,” writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better;New York Timesbestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching “Missing You”; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his “An Act of Faith”;New York Timesbestselling author L. A. Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love as a child, “Two Cents and a Question.” And the poetry of love is here, too—from Gwendolyn Brooks’s classic “Black Wedding Song” to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander.It’s All Loveis a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love.

Editorial Reviews

Love comes in many forms-romantic, familial, and sacred-as evidenced by this impressive collection of stories, poems, and essays compiled by Golden (After) and written by such notables as Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Jill Nelson. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Author Information

Bio of Marita Golden

MARITA GOLDEN has written both fiction and nonfiction, including Migrations of the Heart, The Edge of Heaven, A Miracle Every Day, and Saving Our Sons. She is the editor of Wild Women Don ' t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex and the coeditor of Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing and of Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race. She is the founder and CEO of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which supports African American writers, and lives in Maryland. Please visit Marita at www.maritagolden.com.

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Additional Info

Imprint

Broadway Books

Filesize

1.40 MB

Number of Pages

432

eBook ISBN

9780767931588