SIMPLICITY WITH SOUL
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In The Seven Wonders of Stevie: Kwansabas, award-winning author Ran Walker pays homage to the musical brilliance and cultural legacy of Stevie Wonder through the disciplined elegance of kwansabas, a poetic form created by Dr. Eugene B. Redmond and rooted in the Black literary tradition. With lyricism, reverence, and soul, Walker explores Wonder's sound, spirit, and influence, crafting a poetic celebration that resonates like a timeless groove. This collection is both tribute and testimony, a chorus of 49-word poems that reflects the wonder of Stevie and the wonder he inspires. |
"Ran Walker is a genius at writing flash fiction."
~ Amy Jones, Editor-In-Chief at Writer's Digest
"Tender and strange, startling and lyrical, witty and nuanced, Ran Walker's stories lingered in my mind long after I finished reading them."
~ Grant Faulkner, author of The Art of Brevity and All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
"Walker's stories are runways from which the reader's imagination takes flight!"
Sabin Prentis, Award-winning Author of Dancing With My Father
"Thank you, Ran, for picking up the guitar of fiction and fretting together characters of such warmth, depth, and humanity."
~ Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olio and Leadbelly
"I read Ran's evocative poems one at a time at night so that they'd inhabit my dreams."
~ Tina McElroy Ansa, author of Ugly Ways and You Know Better
"Walker does an excellent job of pushing the racial envelope, confronting preconceptions and notions while always helping readers see the shifting Black persona."
~ Shonda Buchanan, author of Black Indian and Who's Afraid of Black Indians?
"I'm amazed that Ran Walker can stuff so much meaning and power into so few words."
~ Rion Amilcar Scott, author of Insurrections and The World Doesn't Require You
"Ran Walker is a writer's writer."
~ Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You and We Cast a Shadow
"Walker's clarity of style and smooth, mellifluous language [...] place him among the cadre of new Black voices budding with fresh, ripe tales of a past and present yet to untold.”
~ Daniel Black, author of Perfect Peace and Twelve Gates to the City
~ Amy Jones, Editor-In-Chief at Writer's Digest
"Tender and strange, startling and lyrical, witty and nuanced, Ran Walker's stories lingered in my mind long after I finished reading them."
~ Grant Faulkner, author of The Art of Brevity and All the Comfort Sin Can Provide
"Walker's stories are runways from which the reader's imagination takes flight!"
Sabin Prentis, Award-winning Author of Dancing With My Father
"Thank you, Ran, for picking up the guitar of fiction and fretting together characters of such warmth, depth, and humanity."
~ Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olio and Leadbelly
"I read Ran's evocative poems one at a time at night so that they'd inhabit my dreams."
~ Tina McElroy Ansa, author of Ugly Ways and You Know Better
"Walker does an excellent job of pushing the racial envelope, confronting preconceptions and notions while always helping readers see the shifting Black persona."
~ Shonda Buchanan, author of Black Indian and Who's Afraid of Black Indians?
"I'm amazed that Ran Walker can stuff so much meaning and power into so few words."
~ Rion Amilcar Scott, author of Insurrections and The World Doesn't Require You
"Ran Walker is a writer's writer."
~ Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You and We Cast a Shadow
"Walker's clarity of style and smooth, mellifluous language [...] place him among the cadre of new Black voices budding with fresh, ripe tales of a past and present yet to untold.”
~ Daniel Black, author of Perfect Peace and Twelve Gates to the City