![]() Pondering why it is so many people find my (a black woman writer) passion for the written word suspect, I am reminded of how recent it is that we have made our literary voices heard in a sustained way-especially writing nonfiction. Like so much of my work, many of the essays in this collection emerged as responses to readers who wanted to know more about how the work came to be what it is and other less gentle interrogators who found my engagement with writing suspect. When I am writing, when I am reading, I reflect on the process of writing itself. As a writer I come back to the same place again and again, hoping to make a new discovery or to see an old idea in a fresher light. Engaging these ideas through the years necessarily leads to some repetition. Significantly, issues that were relevant and key when I first began writing are still central. Some are academic in tone, others are polemical or playful or just plain celebratory. Written from the standpoint of cultural critic, literary scholar, and/or creative writer, these essays probe and examine. This work was written to share the dimensions of my writing life that take place behind the scenes. Writing these essays about writing has intensified my understanding and appreciation of the writer at work. VIRGINIA WOOLF preface rapture from the deep … when I ask you to write more books I am urging you to do what will be for your good and for the good of the world at large.
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