Stonybrook Editions

Blackness of Black is a book that features poems dedicated to an exciting, innovative artist, Nan Hoover. Nan Hoover, born in NYC in 1931, was not only an experimenting video artist, but also an inspired and inspiring live performer. She was also known for sublime drawings and fine paintings as well as light installations. The poems were written and given to her in the 1980s; she said it was the first time ever that she received poems dedicated to her and her work.
In addition to the poems that she cared for, there is information on her and on her way of doing video films, as well as other information.

Mbizo Chirashas Dichtung sprengt den Rahmen dessen, was wir in Europa oder Nordamerika als Poesie kennen. Mbizo Chirasha ist vor allem ein mündlicher Dichter, ein "oral poet", der ausgeht von den gesprochenen Rhythmen der Sprache des "povo", des einfachen Volkes - mit allem, was sie ausdrücken kann: allem Kummer, allen Sehnsüchten, allen Hoffnungen.
Kürzlich veröffentlichte die Literaturzeitschrift des renommierten New Directions Verlags in New York, die Evergreen Review, mehrere Gedichte Mbizo Chirashas. Dieser Dichter des "povo" beginnt auch in den Zentren der globalisierten Welt, endlich von immer mehr an Weltliteratur interessierten Lesern wahrgenommen zu werden.
Mbizo Chirasha's poetry goes beyond what we know as poetry in Europe or North America. Mbizo Chirasha is above all an oral poet, someone who starts out from the spoken rhythms of the language of the "povo", the common people - with everything that it can express: all those sorrows, all the longings, all hopes.

The literary journal Evergreen Review, published by the renowned New Directions publishing house in New York, recently published several of Mbizo Chirasha's poems. This poet of the "povo" is finally beginning to be noticed in the centers of the globalized world by readers who are increasingly interested in world literature.