“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. VISIONS OF A SKYLARK DRESSED IN BLACK is therefore presented as a freely styled dance with readers. It is a dance that rocks to the jubilations, blues, testimonies, nightmares, heartbeats and loveshouts of one creative consciousness spinning and hovering to the music of its own extraordinary flight between dimensions of fantastic being.”
--From the Introduction
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A SHORT WORD WITH THE AUTHOR:
"The title for my latest book, VISIONS OF A SKYLARK DRESSED IN BLACK, is very descriptive of the book’s metaphysical substance and character. The stories in it may be viewed as painted meditations on the human condition, and the poems described as word portraits of life as we live it on the inside of our dreams and on the outside of our nightmares. They include striking profiles of such celebrated individuals as Coretta Scott King, Gordon Parks, Jack Kerouac, and Langston Hughes. Themes range from classic flights of love’s transcendent splendor to modern-day challenges of war, social harmony, and individual self-empowerment. In these pages myth and reality fuse to make VISIONS OF A SKYLARK DRESSED IN BLACK a uniquely unforgettable reading experience."
--A Skylark Dressed in Black
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