A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader (White Crane Wisdom Series) | 
| Author: Malcolm Boyd
Creators: Gene Robinson, Bo Young, Dan Vera, Mark Thompson
Publisher: White Crane Books / Lethe Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $15.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
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Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0019HVBR4
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Gay/straight, Christian/atheist, coffeehouse or pulpit, poet or prose, Malcolm Boyd is an exemplar of the American tradition of life's adventure and free-thinking. He is a gift to anyone who takes the time to encounter him in his writings. To celebrate Malcolm Boyd's 85th birthday, and in recognition of the Lambda Literary Foundation's awarding of the Pioneer Award to him and his partner Mark Thompson for lifetime achievement, White Crane Books is proud to announce the publication of A Prophet in His Own Land: A Malcolm Boyd Reader, a compendium of five decades of his prose, poetry, prayers and interviews. This is the first collection of Boyd's writings assembled under one cover, offering the gamut of the man's heart, mind and soul to first-time readers or long-time readers alike. Compiled by Bo Young and Dan Vera, editors of White Crane: the Journal of Gay Wisdom & Culture, the collection begins with the first writings Boyd produced, reflecting presciently on his insider's knowledge and experience in the mot
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The first collected writings of a community elder June 26, 2008
B. Young (Brooklyn, NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first and only such collection of Malcolm Boyd's five decades of writings, spanning from his early years in Hollywood, through the strife of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, Stonewall, and now as writer and poet in residence at the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
From the review in EDGE: Boyd was very active in the Civil Rights movement. His descriptions of the utter degradation and hateful actions against blacks in the South in his "Blind No More" series really opened my eyes. This is fascinating stuff, and well worth the price of the book in itself.
Essays, poetry, magazine articles and interview give as full a picture of this important cultural voice as has ever been published.
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