The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
(Author)
Benjamin Charles
(Read by)
Description
In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding. But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley--writing as A--meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.
Product Details
Price
$46.99
$43.70
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publish Date
February 22, 2022
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Compact Disc
EAN/UPC
9798212123389
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Ashon T. Crawley is the author of The Lonely Letters (2020) and Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (2016). He is associate professor of Religious studies and African American and African studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Benjamin Charles is a Bahamian-born, Brooklyn-based audiobook narrator, mindfulness meditator, and marathoner. He's voiced over twenty titles for multiple publishing companies.