Allies by Ed Pavlic

Allies by Ed Pavlic

How do we know who is on our side? Is it possible for someone who is not like us to share our same hopes? Can links forged by empathy or mutual interest match those created by shared experience? What can we gain from alliances that we cannot achieve on our own?
These are difficult questions to answer even in intimate settings, and more so in arenas of cultural and political struggle. Through original poetry, fiction, and cultural criticism from renowned writers and newcomers, Allies will offer indispensable insights into issues of trust, bridge-building, difference, and betrayal. Drawing on the prophetic power of the imagination to conjure both the possible dangers and life-giving possibilities of alliances--be they political, private (such as marriage), therapeutic, or even aesthetic (between readers and writers, for example)--Allies will be indispensable reading for our times.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, finalist for the National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, O, the Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere.

Ed Pavlic is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener; Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Ivelisse Rodriguez's short story collection, Love War Stories, was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is founder and editor of an interview series published in Centro Voices, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

Sonia Sanchez--poet, activist, scholar--is a Robert Frost Medal recipient, and winner of the 1985 American Book Award and the 1999 Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books, including Does Your House Have Lions?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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ISBN 13	9781946511492
ISBN 10	1946511498
Title	Allies
Author	Ed Pavlic
Series	Boston Review Forum
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.
Year published	2019-11-26
Number of pages	192
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