Kirjahaku

Red Dirt Revival: a poetic memoir in 6 Breaths is a collection that offers personal meditations that speaks to vastly diverse and often unanticipated audiences, naming vital specifics and moving to the poetic universality of pain and redemption. A decade after his brave authorial debut, Tim'm West is still here to honor the dexterity and resilience of a book that has been everywhere from spoken word stages to black gay men's book clubs to feminist classrooms. This expanded edition offers a 7th Breath, speaking to the work's enduring power. As Christina Accomando writes in the new introduction, "Red Dirt Revival, not surprisingly, is both a classic text and a living, breathing work of art, communication and community."

In pre-dispositions, Tim'm West's first collection of entirely new work since the 2007 Flirting, the author known for his outward introspection shamelessly puts forth a work where his own affirmations on loving aim to mobilize the brave community of "rhyters" he imagined in his first book Red Dirt Revival. West constructs this multi-genre collection of writing unified in its exploration of the inextricable relationship between the break and its healing. Through compound words, with some poetic liberty, West moves through his-story, father-hood, book-marks, in-between, desire-ability, every-thing, and he-art with some of his most vulnerable work to date-- something of note, given the deeply personal nature of his existing work. A philosopher, by training, West's poetry is ambitious, not so much for its attempt to code experience with terse words or heavy symbolism, but for wordplay that suggests everyone can find, through the author, a mirror. Lose yourself here to find yourself here.