Black Matters - Paperback
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Black Matters - Paperback
$20.00
by Afua Cooper (Author), Wilfried Raussert (Author)
Halifax's Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya -- a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert's photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary characters. This visual and textual conversation honours the multiple layers of Blackness in the African diaspora around North America and Europe. The result is a work that amplifies black beauty and offers audible resistance.
Author Biography
A celebrated poet, Afua Cooper was recently installed as Halifax's seventh Poet Laureate. She is the author of five books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Copper Woman and Other Poems and two novels, The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montreal, and My Name is Phillis Wheatley. She has also recorded two poetry CDs, including the forthcoming Love and Revolution. A founder of the Canadian Dub poetry movement, Afua Cooper was instrumental in organizing between 2004 and 2009, three international dub poetry festivals.
Wilfried Raussert is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar. He works across the boundaries of music, literature, photography, art and literary criticism. He is chair of North American and Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is director of the International Association of Inter-American Studies, and author and editor of twenty scholarly books, including Art Begins in Streets Art Lives in Streets, Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities, and Traveling Sounds: Music, Migration, and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond.
Number of Pages: 64
Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.9 x 6.2 IN
Publication Date: October 12, 2020
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