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Poetry. African American Studies. Philosophy. Essays. Now available as a second edition with a new preface from the author, Will Alexander's TOWARDS THE PRIMEVAL LIGHTNING FIELD (O Books, 1998) is a work of "vertical philosophy" revealing the strata of cultures and language, like geographical layers seen all at once. These essays comprise Alexander's "search for origins outside the warrens of the visible, " revealing a singular imagination tha...

One is never trapped by what seems better or worse, but one simply exists, curiously rising above surrounding tarnish and ailment, listening to oneself via voiceless alchemical mirrors. From King Leopold's atrocities in the Congo to modern-day American consumerism, Will Alexander's THE CONTORTIONIST WHISPERS examines a poet's role across space and time as a lingual power, a practitioner of occult harvests, recruiting and combining the former i...

Life doesn't end. Reality isn't fixed. Time doesn't work the way you think. Even the universe, despite its size, is surprisingly aware of and attuned to each of us. Then come those moments when all boundaries dissolve, worlds merge, and we are given glimpses into how connected everything is. Call Me Jonah is the story of an ordinary man who experiences such extraordinary moments starting in childhood and then continue throughout his lifetime. ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This ...

This book blazes with insight. Part exploration into cause & effect, part foraging through language's depths and breadths, with an unwavering wonder & curiosity, the authors take readers on a continuous journey. Picking up from the foundation established in Dialogics Volume 1 (Concrete Mist Press 2020), Dialogics Volume 2 is a book which has the fermenting potential to enliven and perhaps even enlighten readers of all ilk. In this Volume 2 of...

Will Alexander, although hugely admired as one of the great avant-garde Black poets for many years with over a dozen books under his belt, is just now starting to gain national and international admiration by major outlets. His most recent book, Refractive Africa (2021, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta), was reviewed in both the New York Times and The Guardian. Divine Blue Light is a slight departure from prior...

A career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poets, never before published in the UK.

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The poet is endemic with life itself, " Will Alexander once said, and in this searing pas de trois, Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten, he has exemplified this vital candescence with a transpersonal amplification worthy of the Cambrian explosion. "This being the ballet of the forgotten, " he writes as diasporic witness, "of refracted boundary points as venom." The volume's opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban aut...

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WORLD POPULATION? ONE Mr. Grumpy was just fine with the world - except for one thing: too many people. People on busses, in stores and town squares. People in cars, on streets and everywhere! Big people, little people, tiny and tall, he had the gall to wince at them all. "Oh, how I wish the day would come, " said he, "When I wished for people and there were none." Mr. Grumpy gets his wish.

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Now in paperback-a must have for book lovers everywhereKoudleka's extraordinary images cement him as a master of photographyIncludes new texts to place this key body of work within our contemporary culture

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Excerpt from The Slater and Jeanes Funds: An Educator's Approach to a Difficult Social ProblemIn turning through the records, one's attention is arrested by interesting glimpses Of the founders, Mr. John F. Slater Of Connecticut and Miss Anna T. Jeanes Of Pennsylvania. In a time Of increasing secularism, it is interesting to note that both of them seemed to have been moved by religious motives. Belief in the good life and the reality Of goodne...

Black & White Paperback Edition."'Spectral Hieroglyphics' is a timeless 'organic constellation' of poems on the unstoppable power of radical poetic vision...In this extraordinary troika of poems, Will Alexander not only shows the strong determination of three free minds to achieve a fully poetic way of life, he also demonstrates the actuality of their revolutionary visions...Alexander portrays these poets in the grandeur of their passionate id...