Sharon Bridgforth (77 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. In June 2022, Sharon Bridgforth and Daniel Alexander Jones held an intimate and searching conversation about the pragmatics of making art and engaging the communities--living and ancestral--from which their work emerges. The two longtime friends reflect on Bridgforth's bull-jean and dem/dey back, a collection of two performance/novels written twenty-two years apart about the eponymous bull-jean (published in Sept 2022 by 53rd State Press). Bridgforth reveals how motherhood spurred her towards understanding her genders and sexuality, and how the desire to love, heal, and live in truth has compelled her writing and her life choices. Bridgforth details the weave between her early work in social justice (based in Austin, TX, where she and Jones met), her artmaking, and her remarkable commitment to community. Bridgforth's writing starts in the marrow of her own healing. As they discuss Bridgforth's work--as well as the work of such luminaries as Laurie Carlos, Robbie McCauley, Ntozake Shange, Urban Bush Women, raúlrsalinas, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland--Jones and Bridgforth offer tested strategies for living a grounded artistic life.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. All These Things: A Conversation. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth?s southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed?the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo?mn-lovvn-wo?mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.…

Paperback. Condition: New. bull-jean and dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed-the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo'mn-lovvn-wo'mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth?s southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed?the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo?mn-lovvn-wo?mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.…

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Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A non-traditional narrative poem set in the rural South in the 1920's by this African American and lesbian poet. 108 pp Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. First Edition Thus (1998), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of a crease and bit of bend to the upper front corner tip and which affects the first dozen pages slightly; else flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, very nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a single imperfection. Bright and Clean. Corners sharp. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.5 x 5 x 0.3 inches). 109 pages. Language: English. Weight: 6.4 ounces. Trade Paperback. Poetry describing the life of black women in the south during the 1920s, by the African American poet and AIDS activist. Sharon Bridgforth has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2009, and is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. She is producer, founder and curator of the Theatrical Jazz Institute, produced by The Theatre School at DePaul and Links Hall in Chicago, 2011-2012. Bridgforth is author of two performance novels, LOVE CONJURE/BLUES (RedBone Press, 2004) and the Lambda Literary Award-winning THE BULL-JEAN STORIES (RedBone Press, 1998). Her performance script delta dandi is published in solo/black/woman (Northwestern University Press). Bridgforth, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Lisa L. Moore are co-editors of Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic: Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project (University of Texas Press). First Edition Thus (1998), First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. …

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paperback. Condition: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.