This monograph is part of an ongoing series focusing on former Black Mountain College students and teachers. As the wife of Jacob Lawrence, arguably America's most famous African-American artist, Gwendolyn Knight has been completely overshadowed. Yet, with her husband's encouragement, she painted her whole life, and has continued to work since his death.

Gwendolyn Knight: Black Mountain College Dossier 7

Biographies & Memoirs

Redmond, Glenis

Community & Culture

Lotus Bloom Ltd

Under the Sun

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Main Street Rag

The Song of Everything: A Poet's Exploration of South Carolina's State Parks

Good Printed Things

A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman.

Backbone

Underground Epics Publishing

In What My Hand Say, Glenis Redmond digs deep, risking peace of mind, the comfort of ignorance and the assurance of being numb to history and memory, to make poems that are urgent, full of alarm, and marked by the realization that the best art is one that dares to look boldly at hard experience and still find a music in it. This a welcome collection by a poet engaged in the necessary work of writing with a full sense of place and history. South Carolina is fecund with stories and musics, and Redmond manages to tap into this complex resource with skill and heart. –Kwame Dawes

What My Hand Say

Press 53

Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deeply historical, Redmond's latest collection details how generational cycles of poverty, mental and physical illness, and systemic racism impact the self, the family, and the greater African-American collective. Examining the connection between adverse childhood experiences and adult chronic conditions, Redmond's poems arise from her deepest listening, beyond the skin, rooted in the marrow. They speak to the hardship of enduring fibromyalgia and the ongoing challenges of multiple myeloma while rejoicing in survival and the grace of existence itself. Yes, The Listening Skin affirms life and demands the dignity its speaker deserves: "I am full of this past present heat / I carry. / I come to the shore, / but I vacate nothing." This consummate work honors embodied knowledge, all that's heard at the boundary between flesh and air, vacating nothing, determinedly and brilliantly whole.

The Listening Skin

Four Way Books

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Redmond, Glenis. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Redmond, Glenis