Carry The Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books
Compiled by Steven G. Fullwood, Reginald Harris and Lisa C. Moore
Edited by Steven G. Fullwood and Lisa C. Moore
Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books is a seminal reference work, featuring over 600 titles by and about black Same-Gender-Loving (SGL) and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer-identified (LGBTQ) writers and culture, as well as interviews and articles about black SGL authors.
A must-have for booksellers, librarians, academics, community-based organizations, book clubs and readers interested in black LGBTQ books and authors, all proceeds from sales of Carry the Word will benefit Fire & Ink, Inc., supporter and advocate for SGL writers of African descent. Carry the Word is co-published with Vintage Entity Press.
Introduction by Reginald Harris
ISBN-10: 0-9786251-4-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-9786251-4-6
Specs: Softcover, 212 pp.
Price: $16.95
Pub. Date: July 2007
Cover art copyright © 2007 by Artis Q. Wright
Cover design: E.M. Corbin
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Praise for Carry The Word:
This compilation of almost 700 black queer titles—fiction and poetry, essays and anthologies, gay studies texts and lesbian biographies—has value enough as a useful library resource. …And there’s a value-added component: more than two dozen interviews (and a few reviews) that add personality to the book’s bare-bones booklist. SF author and gay novelist Samuel Delany, Audre Lorde biographer Alexis De Veaux, and poets Marvin K. White, Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Reginald Harris are among the better-known writers profiled; Delany tells what it’s like to be a black, gay, genre writer—and how those three elements don’t overlap much in his life, and De Veaux tells about the 10 years it took her to write about Lorde’s life. But the richest interviews come from lesser-known authors, among them Rashid Darden, R. Erica Doyle, and Travis Montez, who, like their peers, are passionate about the power of black words to chronicle black lives.
—Tom Jackson, www.gaybookblog.net, March 2008