Spells of a Voodoo Doll: The Collected Works of Assotto Saint Collected Work

<span><p><span><b>The collected life-work of an interdisciplinary writer, performer, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.</b></span></p><p><span>In 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, <i>Sacred Spells</i> 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 </span>integral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide, both historic and present.<br></p></span>