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The Black Lion Publishing Book Giveaway | Kola Boof: The Beautiful One For it's initial book giveaway, Black Lion Publishing is proud to highlight the work of African womanist writer and activist Kola Boof. This is not a contest, but a pure giveaway. Anyone that wants to obtain the one available copy of Nile River Woman simply needs to send an email with a brief comment. It can be anything -- a mini-review, a statement about Kola (mini bio at her site), writing in general, whatever you want. At the publisher's discretion, a lucky writer will receive notice on Monday of her/his selection. Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems by Kola Boof Released for the first time in the United States, "Nile River Woman" (a 2004 Black History Month Selection) is the provocative poetry collection that got its author, Kola Boof, kicked out of Morocco in 1997 and threatened with death by her former lover, Osama Bin Laden, in 1998. Widely regarded as a classic of Post-Colonial African literature, "Nile River Woman" (originally released as "Every Little Bit Hurts") tantalizes and engages the reader's imagination as Kola Boof uses conversational motifs, both political and sexual to conjure a dreamily erotic and angry bossa nova type landscape. Most of Boof's most famous poems are collected here--including the scary but poignant "Fly Away Sleeping", the sweetly hopeful "Black Beauty's Totem", the understated but evocative "Ebrig: Gone Dry", the hauntingly triumphant "Bint il Nil" and countless other gems...from the freshly original "The Conquering Lion" (A poem honoring Malcolm X) to Kola Boof's inclusion of Queen Nefertiti's favorite menstration song--"The Written Words of Faceless Women"--which was originally sang in the 3rd Century B.C. by Black women of the Nile River Valley. Do check out other titles by Kola: Flesh and the Devil: A Novel By turns...erotic...melodramatic...violent...and (sniff) "LITERARY"...Kola Boof's 1995 Arabic novel finally arrives in the hands of the people she wrote it for...the Black Americans...thanks to Egyptian poet/activist Said Musa's winning translation. Billed by the publisher as: "essentially the story of the Black Americans"...the novel unfolds like an tempestuous, languid snake dance, both in Africa and the United States..."abruptly" spanning several thousand years in the passionate, uncontrollable longing between one black man (Prince Shango Ogun) and one black woman (Princess Ife Ife). Encompassing everything from slavery to ancient homosexuality to women being raped by the Moon...the novel begins during West Africa's Story of Creation and from there shows off the thriving kingdoms of West Africa before moving on to the Atlantic Slave Trade and finally...to modern day Black Americans in Washington, D.C. and Sag Harbor--at which point the dark skinned African Prince and Princess have now become "light skinned" Americans named Shane Roberts and RooAmber Childress--both married to white people. It's a sensuous, melodramatic, brutally VIOLENT novel made high pitch by showy characters like the glamorous Queen Ambi, the heroic King Katanga, Shane's modern day "white wife" Rosaria and RooAmber's tender homosexual protector in both ancient and modern times--Dinari--who has a romance of his own. Long Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women In the book of the women...they are dark and light, wide and shapely, thin as reeds...their hair eats the sun and their eyes swallow the moon...these are Black Women...the daughters of the earth's first garden. The mothers of God. These are the stories that remind us where we came from and why we came...stories that make us laugh...make us mad as hell...make us want to cry...make us want to get up and eat. These are our reflections. Our love and dreams, our sexual longing and prayers. Our goodness. Our deep eternal beauty. Kola's page at the African American Literary Book Club Sudan's Kola Boof (born Naima Bint Harith) is slowly but surely becoming the new black woman writer that "lots of people love to hate". Remember back in the 70's and 80's when authors like Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Gayl Jones and even Toni Morrison were widely cursed and demonized for the skeletons they exposed? Well now we have the strangely fabulous and daring Kola Boof (she's a sexy feminist literary babe slash African warrior girl slash historian) and she's already getting death threats by the ton! Why is her work so confrontational? And finally, here are some of Kola's inspirations in her own words: [ ... ] Egypt's great feminist writer Nawal El Sadaawi was one of my chief influences. Alice Walker is like my mother. She is my model. Toni Morrison is my favorite writer. Gayl Jones is the writer that I most resemble as a stylist, I think. I loved Diana Ross when I was a kid, because she was flamboyant, sexy and glamorous and she refused to fit the churchy image that most Black women entertainers embraced. I wanted to have a glossy, sensuous image on purpose, because Black women are not supposed to be goddess figures in America. But I come from Africa where many women really are goddess figures. I loved Sherwood Anderson, Richard Wright and James Baldwinıs work. I wanted to create something new on the American landscape. ronn taylor, Director and Publisher Black Lion Publishing (of Brooklyn) Copyright 2001 - 2004: ronn taylor || ronn taylor unlimited