{"product_id":"9781643621562","title":"Sacred Spells","description":"\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation, his Haitian heritage and a politics of liberation, to weave together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death. Influential to contemporary writers such as Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, and Melvin Dixon, \u003ci\u003eSacred Spells\u003c\/i\u003e is Saint's crucial legacy–five hundred incandescent pages of painful, lyric writing that exemplifies the visceral, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice that’s \u003c\/span\u003eintegral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide, both historic and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Assotto Saint","offers":[{"title":"Nightboat Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-09-08","offer_id":44230071517439,"sku":"9781643621562","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1eda14ac-ffac-4d24-a7cf-e027d2531e18.jpg?v=1692999519","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781643621562","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}