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Books by Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America /
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
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FIVE BOOKS
BY DR. MARVIN X
Now Available from
BLACK BIRD PRESS
POB 1317, Paradise
CA 95967
How
to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy
(A Pan African 12 Step Model for a
Mental Health Peer Group, foreword by Dr. Nathan Hare, afterword
by Ptah Allah El), 2008
BEYOND RELIGION, TOWARD
SPIRITUALITY, ESSAYS ON CONSCIOUSNESS,
2007
WISH I COULD TELL YOU THE TRUTH,
ESSAYS, 2005
LAND OF MY DAUGHTERS, POEMS,
2005
IN THE CRAZY HOUSE CALLED
AMERICA, A PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH,
2005
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Comments
Foreword to
How
to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy (Nathan Hare)
He’s the new Malcolm X! Nobody’s
going to talk about his book, HOW TO RECOVER FROM THE ADDICTION
TO WHITE SUPREMACY, out loud, but they’ll hush hush about it.—Jerri
Lange, author, Jerri, A Black Woman’s Life in the Media
Beyond
Religion, Toward Spirituality, essays on consciousness
He is a
Master Teacher in many fields of thought—religion and
psychology,
Sociology and anthropology, history and politics,
literature and the humanities.
He is a needed Counselor, for
he knows himself, on the deepest of personal levels and
he reveals that self to us, that we might be his
beneficiaries…. If you want to reshape (clean up, raise)
your consciousness, this is a book to savor, to read
again and again—to pass onto a friend or lover.
—Rudolph
Lewis, Editor, ChickenBones: A Journal
Wish I
Could Tell You The Truth, essays
….Malcolm X ain’t got nothing
on Marvin X. Still Marvin has been ignored and silenced
like Malcolm would be ignored and silenced if he had
lived on into the Now.
Marvin’s one of the most
extraordinary, exciting black intellectuals living
today—writing, publishing, performing with Sun Ra’s
Musicians (Live in Philly at Warm Daddies, available on
DVD from BPP), reciting, filming, producing conferences
(Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness, San Francisco
Black Radical Book Fair); he’s ever engaging,
challenging the respectable and the comfortable. He like
Malcolm, dares to say things fearlessly, in the open (in
earshot of the white man) that so many Negroes feel,
think and speak on the corner, in the barbershops and
urban streets of black America….
—Rudolph
Lewis, Editor, ChickenBones: A Journal
In The
Crazy House Called America, essays
…People who know Marvin X
already know him as a peripatetic, outspoken,
irreverent, poetic “crazy nigger,” whose pen is
continually and forever out-of-control. As a
professional psychologist, I hasten to invoke the
disclaimer that that is in no way a diagnosis or
clinical impression of mine. I have never actually
subjected this brother to serious psychoanalytical
scrutiny and have no wish to place him on the couch, if
only because I know of no existing psycho-diagnostic
instrumentality of pathology of normalcy that could
properly evaluate Marvin completely.
—Dr.
Nathan Hare, Black Think Tank, San Francisco
Land of My
Daughters, poems
Marvin X has been a witness
to history. He shows that an excellent minority writer
can raise issues that the mainstream publishers and book
reviewers find hard to grapple with…. He, Huey P.
Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and others were also casualties
of the chemical attack on African Americans in the form
of Crack and alcohol waged by corporations and a
government that placed questionable foreign policy goals
above the health of its citizens…. Many of those who
inspired the cultural revolution of the 1960s remain
stuck there. This volume shows that Marvin X has moved
on.
—Ishmael
Reed, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher, Oakland
Iraq…how did we get there and
how do we get back? The consciousness-altering book of
poems that tells the tale, in no uncertain terms and yet
always via poetry, is the astonishing Land of My
Daughters: Poems 1995-2005 by Marvin X. Marvin X is the
USA’s Rumi, and his nation is not “where our fathers
died” but where our daughters live. The death of
patriarchal war culture is his everyday reality. X’s
poems vibrate, whip, love in the most meta- and physical
ways imaginable and un-. He’s got the humor of Pietri,
the politics of Baraka, and the spiritual Muslim
grounding that is totally new in English—the ecstasy of
Hafiz, the wisdom of Saadi. It’s not unusual for him to
have a sequence of shortish lines followed by a
culminating line that stretches a quarter page—it is the
dance of the dervishes, the rhythms of a Qasida.
—Bob
Holman, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City
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Black Bird Press is an imprint of the Marian M.
Jackmon Foundation.
The Mission of the Marian M. Jackmon Foundation is to
preserve and disseminate the writings of Marvin X. Also,
to establish grants and scholarships for men and women
entrepreneurs of spiritual consciousness. Feel free to
make a generous donation to the Marian M. Jackmon
Foundation. Your donation can be tax deductible.
Marian M. Jackmon Foundation, P.O. Box 1317, Paradise
CA 95967. Call 510-472-9589
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ORDER FROM BLACK BIRD PRESS, POB
1317, PARADISE CA 95967
$19.95 each
ALSO AVAILABLE AT DE LAUER’S
NEWS, 14TH AND Broadway, downtown Oakland. Call
510-355-6339 for information or to book the author to speak or
read. Check his blog:www.marvinxwrites.blogspot.com.
Email him: mrvnx@yahoo.com.
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update 1 August 2008
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