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Two Philadelphia natives meet at Salem College in Winston Salem.
Nathan Ross Freeman is Aileen Muhammad's poetry and screenwriting
professor. She believes he is her blood brother by some accidental
occurrence. He says maybe in another life. She begins to write
stories. He shares his and here they are. The threads that weave
the fabric of these stories, the entry into the avenue of the muse
and the poetic conjures are startling and satisfying.
Two Philadelphia natives meet at Salem College in Winston Salem.
Nathan Ross Freeman is Aileen Muhammad's poetry and screenwriting
professor. She believes he is her blood brother by some accidental
occurrence. He says maybe in another life. She begins to write
stories. He shares his and here they are. The threads that weave
the fabric of these stories, the entry into the avenue of the muse
and the poetic conjures are startling and satisfying.
In the early 1930s, young Ace Smart is eight years old when his
father, a physician, is found hung in his office, and his mother, a
writer in the Harlem Renaissnce, dies soon after. He grows up
bitterly, marries, and raises two daughters. This is the story of
the spiritual journey of one of his daughters. Evidence of the past
and feelings of the famiy emerge as Mia is hospitlized in a mental
hospital. Ace's secret affair with Vanav weaves suspense when Ace
discovers that Vanav was his wife's best friend in childhood. Vanav
has only known freedom and has kept the knowledge and science of
her people from the island of Sokotra in the Indian Ocean. She is
close to Mia and shared her knowledge with Mia's mother. Ace later
finds that his father and grandparents were affiliated with people
from that island who settled in Steelton, Pennsylvania, and worked
with the underground railroad. Quakers, Muslims, and Jews were
involved in the movement. Family ideas about the African American
experience are an issue as is the remedy for Mia. The family has
ties with the struggle for honor and with an ancient healing that
comes from knowledge of the blood or red resin from the dragon tree
of Sokotra. Unexpected events occur when Ace finally gets rid of
his hostility and Mia fights for her mental and emotional freedom.
This story is woven with poetry, in an out of time as its powerful
messages leave an important imprint on the heart.
In the early 1930s, young Ace Smart is eight years old when his
father, a physician, is found hung in his office, and his mother, a
writer in the Harlem Renaissnce, dies soon after. He grows up
bitterly, marries, and raises two daughters. This is the story of
the spiritual journey of one of his daughters. Evidence of the past
and feelings of the famiy emerge as Mia is hospitlized in a mental
hospital. Ace's secret affair with Vanav weaves suspense when Ace
discovers that Vanav was his wife's best friend in childhood. Vanav
has only known freedom and has kept the knowledge and science of
her people from the island of Sokotra in the Indian Ocean. She is
close to Mia and shared her knowledge with Mia's mother. Ace later
finds that his father and grandparents were affiliated with people
from that island who settled in Steelton, Pennsylvania, and worked
with the underground railroad. Quakers, Muslims, and Jews were
involved in the movement. Family ideas about the African American
experience are an issue as is the remedy for Mia. The family has
ties with the struggle for honor and with an ancient healing that
comes from knowledge of the blood or red resin from the dragon tree
of Sokotra. Unexpected events occur when Ace finally gets rid of
his hostility and Mia fights for her mental and emotional freedom.
This story is woven with poetry, in an out of time as its powerful
messages leave an important imprint on the heart.
"If you have the privilege, you already have the right to peruse
Aileen Muhammad's collection of work from 2009 to present. I have.
You had been whisked away at the very first word of every piece she
has written. Aileen will unleash your spirit and take you
somewhere. And everyone of her riveting, healing, love pods, take
you by the hand, walks you across the street to Karma, then, hurl
you through non-stop imagery, imaginings, soul deep steep vision
parables that make it exciting to you 'see' for your Self what you
have read. Sustained takes every line of verse and weaves them
seamlessly with Bai's (Carl Karni-Bain)consuming paintings that
tour Persona, the soul of persona. Sustained places every verse and
image on the tip of your tongue. Yes, Sustained speaks from you,
through you, to where you must go. Aileen's, Sustained, incurs
nature, stretches longing to the nth degree. Both holy and sacred,
Aileen defines the microcosmic juncture of the two, a formula for
transcendence. Sustained traverses every revered poetic structure
with a very delightful page of Haiku Feathers that manipulates the
sparkle in your eye. But, oh my, the signature structural
fierceness of Sustained Aileen Muhammad is a fearless language
soloist. Sustained is a School of Thought entry to the annals."
Nathan Ross Freeman
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