Mrs Mariahadessa Ekere Talle

Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation Mrs Mariahadessa Ekere Talle

Publisher Marketing: Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation is the second book by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie. She has captured brilliance & tenderness in this collection, writing to a generation that may sometimes feel no one is listening or communicating with them. This is the third release by Grand Concourse Press. "These (are) letters of wisdom, compassion, and understanding deeply rooted in the day to day practice of "walking the walk..". the book made me feel as though I'd just heard Amiri Baraka or Sonia Sanchez "blow" a new sound/solo on their Soul-instruments, and regretted that I hadn't done so. Tallie's knowledge, experience and deep insight caused me to wish that as a young, '60s poet, I'd had the good fortune to receive such a spiritual and literary gift. Yes, our elders spoke to us, but few, if any, wrote to our Generation with such compassionate understanding." -Askia M. Toure, Poet, Activist, Djali, Co-founder of the Black Arts Movement Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is the author of Karma's Footsteps (Flipped Eye). She is the Poetry Editor of the literary magazine African Voices. Her work has been published in North American Review, WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Black Renaissance Noire, VIDA, Crab Orchard Review, and BOMB. Tallie's work is the subject of the short film, "I Leave My Colors Everywhere." She is the recipient of a 2010 Queens Council on the Arts grant for her research on herbalists of the African diaspora. Tallie earned an MFA from Mills College in 2002. She has taught literature and composition at York College and Medgar Evers College in New York City. Her children, the young people she meets when she travels, and justice are her biggest inspirations. www.ekeretallie.com This is the third release from Grand Concourse Press. for more info www.grandconcoursepress.com"