Peter J. Harris

Safe Arms

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by Neruda's '20 Love Songs,' New FlowerSong Press Book Features Spanish Translations and Cover Design by Chilean American Francisco Letelier McAllen, Tex. - FlowerSong Press announces acquisition of Safe Arms: 20 Love & Erotic Poems (w/an Ooh Baby moan) by Peter J. Harris, with Spanish translation and cover design by Francisco Letelier, slated for 2022 publication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: FlowerSong Press
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 138g
• ISBN-13: 9781953447845
• ISBN-10: 1953447848
• Artikelnr.: 63992540

Autorenporträt

Writer & Cultural WorkerPeter J. Harris, 2018 Los Angeles COLA Fellow in literary arts, Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC, and award-winning poet/essayist, is the author of Bless the Ashes, poetry (Tia Chucha Press), winner of the 2015 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and The Black Man ofHappiness: In Pursuit of My 'Unalienable Right,' a book of personal essays, winner of a 2015 American Book Award. In 2022, Beyond Baroque Books will publish Harris' book of poetry SongAgain. Harris is founding director of The Black Man of Happiness Project, www.blackmanofhappinessproject.com, a creative, intellectual and artistic exploration of Black men and joy. Harris writes the blog WREAKING HAPPINESS: A Joyful Living Journal: www.inspirationcrib.com.His 2018 TEDx Pasadena Talk with Adenike A. Harris, at Huntington Library, "Healing vs. Retaliation: Surviving Trauma and Sexual Abuse," described and celebrated 15 years of working with his daughter after convicting and jailing her predator ex-stepfather. Harris and his daughter arealso contributors to Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse, edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons (2019).Since the 1970s, Harris has published his work in a wide variety of publications, including Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Suzanne Lummis; Altadena Poetry Anthologies for 2018 and 2019; and Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts in Los Angeles, edited by Neelanjana Banerjee, Daniel A. Olivas, and Ruben J. Rodriguez. Since 1992, Harris has been a member of the Anansi Writers Workshop at the World Stage, in LA's Leimert Park.