I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

Description

I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like
by Rebecca Carroll

ISBN: 9798888902547
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition
brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in
conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The first
edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains
an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres.
Featuring interviews with and excerpts by writers like Rita Dove, Pearl
Cleage, Barbara Neely, June Jordan, and others, this indispensable work
speaks to the intersections of politics and art-making along the lines of
race, gender, sexuality, and class. Now, writer and cultural critic Rebecca
Carroll presents the original conversations alongside personalized
introductions by some of the brightest voices in today’s literary world,
including Donika Kelly, Safiya Sinclair, Diamond Sharp, and Chanda Prescod-
Weinstein, among others. This new edition also includes an introductory
poem by Morgan Parker, a foreword by Salamishah Tillet, and a new author’s
note. The new contributors carry the torch of the original interviewees’
lives and words with heart, rigor, gratitude, and radical imagination,
illuminating how these conversations are about more than just writing–they
are about life, relationships, joy, gratitude, wellness, and self-
preservation. I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like is a book unbound by
time, lifting up a chorus of past and present voices. Paying homage to a
historic lineage of Black feminist writers and their impact on our current
literary landscape, it is a book by and for the storytellers, the poets,
the playwrights, the dreamers, and all readers interested in what it means
to make art within and from marginalized spaces.