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In the Crazy House Called America
Essays By Marvin X
"He
walked through the muck and mire of hell
and came out clean as white fish and
black as coal" Reviews
Marvin
X has always been in the forefront of pan African writing.
Indeed, he is one of the founders and innovators of the
revolutionary school of African writing. In the Crazy House
is solid writing!
--Amiri Baraka (aka
LeRoi Jones), Newark, New Jersey
In
terms of being modernist and innovative, he's centuries ahead of
anybody I know.
--Dennis Leroy
Moore, filmmaker, Brecht Forum, New York
Courageous
and outrageous! He walked through the much and mire of hell and
came out clean as white fish and black as coal.
--from the foreword
by James W. Sweeney, Oakland, CA
In
the Crazy House Called America is for brothers especially.
It is a book all black men should grab hold of and digest, if
for no other reason than to experience just how redemptively
healing and liberating being honest can be.
--Junious Ricardo
Stanton, New York
Marvin
X is doing the kind of thing we should be doing, bringing
"psychodrama" into didactic nonfiction. Beyond that,
it's good literature.
--Dr. Nathan Hare,
San Francisco
The
stories are heartfelt, theoretical, insightful, passionate and
private, with psychosocial, political recommendations and
commentary on what black folks need to do to get reparations,
our "40 Acres and a Mule."
--from the
Introduction by Suzette Celeste, MPA, MSW, Richmond California
"The
Maid, The Ho', The Cook" was one of the most beautiful
pieces about real love I've ever read. The image of
"crack-heads" as scandalous and without human dignity
is destroyed by Marvin's recollection of this sister with whom
he fell in love.
--Lil Joe, Los
Angeles, CA
One
of the things that makes this book a great joy is the range of
subjects vital to all types of Black folks from richest to
poorest.
--John
Woodford, former editor in chief of Muhammad Speaks
When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too Short, Master P or
any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, think of Marvin
X. He laid the foundation and gave us the language to express
black male urban experiences in a lyrical way.
--James G. Spady, Philadelphia
New Observer
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In the Crazy House Called America, Essays By Marvin X, 200 pp. / $19.95
plus $5.00 for handling and mailing: Black Bird Press, 3116 38th
Ave., Suite 304, Oakland, CA, 94619. |
