Ridin' the Moon in Texas - Hardcover

Shange, Ntozake

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312889291 ISBN 13: 9780312889296

Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1987

Synopsis

Using the classic call-and-response structure of black music--the visual art work as the call and language as the response--this book provides a unique interchange between contemporary visual arts and poetry

About this title

From Library Journal:

Shange attempts to create a "verbal dialogue" with the works of various visual artists. Her dialogue is, she says in "Night Lightning," a "conversation that goes on all night long. . . . " She speaks to the works as she would "to a friend over coffee or champagne." While using the visual arts as a take-off point for writing is certainly not a new idea, Shange brings to these poems and prose pieces her unique style and way of seeing. Often what she sees seems to have more to do with her own sensibilities than it does with the visual illustrations that accompany the writingbut that writing is lively, sensuous, and, finally, interesting in its own right. Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans P.L.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review:

Between The Two Of Them
Conversations With The Ancestors
Dream Of Pairing
For Vickie Miller
Gardenias On The Borderline
Irrepressibly Bronze, Beautiful And Mine
La Luta Continua
New Orleans Nuptials
Passages: Earth Space
Prologue: Night Lightning
Three Views Of Mt. Fugi
Who Needs A Heart
Wrapping The Wind
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martins Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0312889291
• ISBN 13: 9780312889296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 81