""Sweet Potato Pie" gives voice to one of the new generation's
poets and writers. Written with clarity and artistic vision, James
Golden's first book, challenges us to explore race and gender with
passion and truthfulness." -Karin Stanford, Ph.D. "Sweet Potato Pie
Underneath The Sun's Broiler" is the first volume of poetry from
prize-winning poet James B. Golden. The book features an
introduction by renowned scholar and Emmy Award-Winner, Johnie
Scott, who co-founded the Watts Writers Workshop in Southern
California. He begins the work with a reflection on the state of
contemporary poetry and a dedication to the personified death of
classic word patterns. Hip Hop, Masculinity, Ecology, Death, Rape,
Misogyny, Growing Up and Blackness are revisited and intertwined
themes within the book. Be that as it may, there is room for social
and political satire (On the Occasion of Paris Hilton's Prison
Sentence, George, Love Letters To Angela Davis). Perhaps, the most
riveting poems within the set lie in the second section, Blackness
and Maleness, where a battle begins with the state of Black men
(Notes From A Worried Black Man, I Think I Killed Hip Hop, Bleach
On My Skin). Unjustified Crucifixion, the poem from which the title
receives its thunder, is the stand-out poem of the book where
Golden offers the troublesome stories of celebrated Black men.
Pulling on every heart-string possible, the world is finally ready
for a new era of Black Artistic Creation which celebrates the past
while leaping into the future realm of writing.
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