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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Firespitter

Firespitter

Cortez, Jayne
Busby, Margaret
Sapphire

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1643622323
ISBN13: 9781643622323
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 688
Weight: 2.55
Height: 2.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez's poetry.

Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way through and across disciplines, bridging poetry and performance with music and the visual arts to create a unique body of work. Consciously rupturing the boundaries between art and politics, Cortez's practice uneasily fits within literary movements of the 20th century, residing everywhere and nowhere between the Black Arts Movement, Surrealism, feminism, and early performance art. As intersectional as it is interdisciplinary, her work is consistently visceral and fearless, acting as a powerful expression of collective rage on behalf of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. In the words of historian Robin D.G. Kelley, her poetry was never 'protest' but a complete revolt, a clarion call for a new way of life.

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