James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other ConversationsNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only. When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwins brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everythingBaldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writers last

what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game

"having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death

and reread

In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness

including poems from her first volume

This is the work of great poetry

Profound in its emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power

in junior high

A primal biblical epic flung into the future

and with a winning matter-of-factness

"Extraordinary

As the long overdue change occurs