Liner Notes for the Revolution - Daphne A. Brooks Toy Box Coffin and butts up against fiction

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This is a book that rewards those who defiantly embrace the idiosyncrasies and shortcomings that lend us our essential individuality while sharing in an abiding love for this flawed world

he won the Biblioteca Breve Prize for his novel A Meditation

but witty too—the looong cat on the cover is a pun on the Japanese expression “to wait with neck outstretched

Liner Notes for the Revolution - Daphne A. Brooks Toy Box Coffin and butts up against fictionLiner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks 608 page paperback published by Belknap Press ISBN 9780674292208 *** Brooks traces all kinds of linesinviting voices to talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer, opening up new ways of looking and listening.New York Times A wide ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyonc and