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Key figure in LGBTQ +, African-American and Haitian art and literary culture of the 1980s and early 1990s. Assotto Saint was a trailblazer in the 1980s and early ‘90s who heavily contributed to increasing the visibility of contemporary Black queerness in literature and theater.
“In whatever avenue you encounter it, Saint’s work is alive with
humans and nature, sex and grief, the zeniths of Black queer life
and the perils of the AIDS crisis.” —Danez Smith, them“Assotto
Saint was, first and foremost, a war poet. He was a poet of the
AIDS war and more than that, he was a poet of the black voices of
the AIDS war, the unheard, unmentioned voices that he was desperate
to keep alive in any way he could.”—Victoria
Brownworth, Lambda Literary
“The road before us looms as an infernal horizon, then
metamorphoses and appears as the cyclical Phoenix at the crossroads
of life, an intersection of evolution and revolution, where
we—baptized in the righteous anger of the Haitian Saint
Assotto—forgive and heal in the knowledge that none of us is a
cosmic orphan.”—André De Shields“Assotto was a man who created
community… And the fragmented nature of this volume accurately
reminds us of the brilliance and courage cut short. A necessary
addition that speaks directly to our world.” —Sarah Schulman“…
writing across genres with a fluidity and ferocity that allowed him
to shapeshift without losing vigor or agility. In whatever avenue
you encounter it, Saint’s work is alive with humans and nature, sex
and grief, the zeniths of Black queer life and the perils of the
AIDS crisis.”—Danez Smith, them“Assotto Saint swept in, like
Dorothy Dandridge if she’d been allowed to play Cleopatra: tall,
regal, perfectly made up, moving as if on a Milan runway with an
authority unlike any poet I’d ever seen. When Assotto spoke, it was
like French silk fabric snapped out over you… He said, ‘on my
resume write survivor.’” —Jewelle Gomez
"Sacred Spells is Saint’s crucial legacy: five hundred
incandescent pages of painful, lyric writing that exemplifies the
visceral, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice that’s
integral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide, both
historic and present." —Queer Forty Staff
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