Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere by Anastacia-Renee Paperback Book

Description: Here In The (Middle) Of Nowhere by Anastacia-Renee In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of nowhereAnd what if in each universe there reigned other Black woman gods One million versions of god, and one million saints to watch over us And what if this Black woman god were placed here on earthThese are just a few of the questions Anastacia-Reneé asks in this daring and mind-bending hybrid collection. Hers is a universe of striking variety—monsters, nontraditional saints, witches, zombies, the couple in the apartment next door, the wise elders from down the block, and gods watching over us all—as well as community and connectedness.With a prose storyline and characters that connect through family, time, and place, Anastacia-Reneé paints world(s) rich with wonder and the paranormal as she peers into the lives of everyday people and spectacular creatures inhabiting not just our neighborhoods, but other dimensions. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere is about interstellar ancestry, community and spirituality. It is about the things we invoke, conjure, and rely on to maintain joy as we keep it moving through difficult eras. Anastacia-Reneés power imbues her spellbinding storytelling with lovingly rendered characters brought to life in lyrical poetry. She builds worlds within worlds and dares us to fully see and love ourselves in all our complexity. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Anastacia-Renee is an award-winning cross-genre writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, TEDx speaker, and podcaster. She is the author of (v.), Forget It, and Answer(Me), and her work has been anthologized in a number of literary outlets, including Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, Spirited Stone, Lessons from Kubotas Garden, Seismic, Seattle City of Literature, Foglifter, Cascadia Magazine, Pinwheel, The Fight and the Fiddle, Glow, The A-Line, Ms. Magazine, Spark, Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Crab Creek Review, Alta, and Catapult. She and has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, VONA, Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Ragdale, Mineral School, Hypatia in the Woods, and the New Orleans Writers Residency. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Review "In Anastacia-Reneés hands, everything above & below & in the middle is teeming with life--stretching beyond the margin--vintage and young at the same time. A gumbo both peaceful and pleasureful and impossibly wrought with the pain of context and intention. The poems of everything, everywhere, all at once. And aint that the Blackest, most alive thing to behold?" -- Aurielle Marie, author of Gumbo Ya Ya"The poetic verve that Anastacia-Reneé has brought to Side Notes from the Archivist is now brought beautifully and vividly to bear in Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere. This is conjure prose, passages and stories invoking ancestral voices, voices layered, down deep and up soaring, longing, loving, living and not living . . . This is bold invocation. Youve been called." -- Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company"Anastacia-Reneés extraordinary, intriguing, afrofuturistic, and mystical collection explores family, community, grief, and love." -- Booklist"An exploration of the mystic within community, told through poetry and flash fiction... Best when read aloud, this narrative can be taken in small quantities as individual narrators tell their stories or taken as one whole, greater than the many stories contained within." -- Kirkus ReviewsReneés poetry and flash fiction runs the whole emotional gamut. . . What comes from all of these stories, bound together by lucile and her sisters, is a sense of community saturated with tenderness, disappointment, pain and happiness. Its marvellous." -- Locus Details ISBN0063221675 Author Anastacia-Renee Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780063221673 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-12 Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-03-12 Pages 144 DEWEY 811.6 Imprint HarperCollins Place of Publication New York, NY Imprint US Amistad Publisher US HarperCollins NZ Release Date 2024-09-03 AU Release Date 2024-09-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168278010;

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