Among The Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh

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Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo and politically volatile topics. His new collection contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures further into the political, personal and secret. Each essay is a commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica's prime minister on anti-gay bigotry, contemplating the risks of outlawed' sex or challenging repressive tactics employed at Cambridge University, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet.'

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A sensitive, sharp set of intelligences--intellectual, to be sure, but prevailingly emotional, too--reside in the makeup of these essays...these pieces are moulded in resistance, bolstered by history, suffused in poetry: each of them is a delight.
--Paper Based Bookshop blog

Glave's prose is a thing of poetry, passion, beauty, and clarity in its compelling appeal for the space of human love and tolerance. A joy to read.
--Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of Dreams in a Time of War

Glave's voice resonates in the plucked string holding each sentence together, an echo of James Baldwin and Jean Genet; his language carries the full freight of witness...His language is seductive and regenerative, critical and humanizing, almost mathematically gauged and encompassing, and it never fails to hold us accountable. But alongside the terror we witness, moments of sheer beauty seethe out of the landscape--not as a balm, but as needful epistles of reflection...Glave has done a heroic deed.
--Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Neon Vernacular

Glave is a gifted stylist...blessed with ambition, his own voice, and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave.
--New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Thomas Glave is an O. Henry Award-winning author and was named a Village Voice "Writer on the Verge" in 2000. He is the author of Whose Song and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (Lambda Literary Award winner), The Torturer's Wife (finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Lambda Literary Award winner). His most recent work has appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, and Callaloo. Glave has been the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and in 2014 will be the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick.