-Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smoky, jazzed-down pop phraseology.---Publishers Weekly
-Troupe's poems are exuberant and passionate outpourings with driving, syncopated rhythms and improvisatory riffs of colorful language.---Star Tribune
Coined with the French word errance (to wander) in mind, these poems rove through ancient Yoruba to the streets of Harlem to the tropical heat of Guadeloupe and emerge with a new vocabulary for the transformations of the physical, philosophical, and...
-Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smoky, jazzed-down pop phraseology.---P...
Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only. When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer s last chance to speak at length about his life and work. The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin s career,...
Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be def...
Immerse yourself in the visual stream created over the past 50 years by Kamoinge, the pioneering photographic collective. Over 280 stunning photos are interspersed with insights and thoughts from Kamoinge's 30 members, who include many of the nation's most acclaimed photographers. Taken in New York City, in West Africa, in Guyana, in suburban America, the photos include abstracts; daily moments of men, women, and children, together or alone; portraits of Miles Davis, Biggie Smalls, a young Ntozake Shange, and many other visionary citizens; and landscapes. Kamoinge, a collective of...
Immerse yourself in the visual stream created over the past 50 years by Kamoinge, the pioneering photographic collective. Over 280 stunning photos are...
Artist and performer Quincy Troupe hits the highest and lowest notes of all that beguiles us in life with Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018. Euphonious, vivid poems take readers down jazzy, free-verse paths that seduce--whether with love, sex, violence, drugs, or art.
Artist and performer Quincy Troupe hits the highest and lowest notes of all that beguiles us in life with Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018. Euphonious,...
