self-care and soaking grains

”—David George Haskell

but with deep currents of association shifting like tides beneath” Melissa Harrison “Nature writing lovers will adore this collection of lyrical essays … Traversing Borneo to New Zealand to North London

including the National Gallery of Australia

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Black Utopias - Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Myanmar self-care and soaking grainsIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers