Fables and Spells
Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry
$36.49
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2023
Summary
Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new.
Included here is her most beloved story, ‘The River,’ as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining fourteen tales and nineteen poems explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that weave deep, radical lessons into the folds of the fantastical.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849354509 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849354502 |
| Author: | adrienne maree brown |
| Publisher: | AK Press |
| Imprint: | AK Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 10g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Emergent Strategy |
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Critics Review
★ “The 70 short stories and poems that make up Brown’s phenomenal debut collection (after the novella Grievers) explore social justice through an Afrofuturist lens…It’s a masterful mix of genre and form that showcases Brown’s range and skill. This should be required reading for anyone looking for Black feminist speculative literature.”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
–Chani Nicholas, New York Times bestselling author of You Were Born For This
“Fables and Spells is potent ancestral cartography. It is a deep well of truths, musings, maps, medicine, and healing extended from adrienne’s ancestral throughline connecting to our own, amplifying the ways we engage in witching for love, liberation, and change.”
–Omisade Burney-Scott, author of Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause
“I felt such a deep connection to myself and my community while reading Fables and Spells. It gave me permission to feel like I knew it all and also nothing … like I’m tapped into an energy so rich and abundant but also so depleted and tired. The stories reminded me that we all have the capacity to heal and destroy.”
–Juju Bae, host of A Little Juju Podcast
“What an exquisite gift this cauldron of Fables and Spells is! adrienne maree brown re-enchants our practices of deep listening and spell crafting, calling us to drink deeply and imagine more wildly. A prophetic voice for our time, adrienne (once again!) channels mycelial and celestial wisdom into remedies in the form of radical tales that guide the way to the world we dream of and grief and praise songs that help us realign with life itself. Full of both urgency and a sense of deep time, this is a book for our altars and our go bags in a world on fire, one you will return to again and again, the pages stained with potion and candlewax.”
–Dori Midnight, community care practitioner
adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy, the New York Times best-selling Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us, Holding Change, and Grievers. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. She is the writer-in-residence at Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.
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