Black Washed: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Dreams, and Letters Addressed to Black Folk is personal. This spiritually charged, critically thoughtful book celebrates the elegance and fullness of Black life. Dennis Maurice shares his heritage through this intimate narrative, elevated by a carefully woven anthology curated by Black women, in this stunning thread about coming of age in luxuriant black bodies.
"Black life is a carnival and a sanctuary, showcasing our journeys with joy and pain through eras blood-stained glass. That alone is worthy of celebrations. My prayer for Black folk is that we become deeply wrapped up in the urgency of OUR individual and collective emptiness. Black Washed is our prayer to be sufficiently used up. Not used to support whiteness, political constructs, and/or Americana, but instead our power & light will be emptied into this world with no consideration for constructed white ideas and identities. I pray for sanctuaries and carnivals full of empty Black folk.”
-Dennis Maurice
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN (2009) WHAT MY COLORED EYES SEE
PUBLISHED IN 2008 AND RELEASED IN 2009, WHAT MY COLORED EYES SEE: THE WORDS OF A DECORATED CHILD, IS DENNIS MAURICE'S FIRST BOOK HE BEGAN WRITING IN 2004 AND RELEASED WHEN HE WAS 25 YEARS OLD.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
RADICAL SENSITIVITY WILL BE RELEASED IN SPRING 2025 -- DENNIS CO-AUTHOR'S THIS BOOK WITH HIS MOTHER, ADRIANNE DUMPSON-DIGGS
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OTHER SIDE OF SOIL: OUR JOURNEYS THROUGH MUD AND MAGIC IS AN ANTHOLOGY OF LIBERATED CELEBRATIONS OF BLACK ANCESTORS TO BE RELEASED IN FALL 2025.
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