Comments on: Three voices. Listen.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:57:12 +0000

Joy, “deceptive” wasn’t meant as an accusation. Chris is someone I deeply admire, and is a good friend. What I meant was that it’s easy to get a picture of Chris as one thing – a comedian, for example – and then have him turn tables and surprise you with another of his facets. This talk was a good example of this – he had us laughing, then had us gasping or crying moments later. Wasn’t meant in any way to be disrespectful or accusatory.

I would also note – this is from a series of posts written in real-time during a four day long conference. If the wording is imprecise… that’s par for the course with liveblogging.

By: joy

joy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:29:53 +0000

Ethan:
Why do you describe Albani as deceptive in your first paragraph and give no explanation for such a charge?
Is that a typo?
Did you mean “perceptive”?

By: hap

hap — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:42:33 +0000

i was touched by Vusi’s song: “my song of love, my song of life…”"memory was surround by blood… ”
just like you said: it swinging between sad and joyful.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:01:47 +0000

I’ve been meaning to read Chris Abani — I remember reading a review of one of his books in the Times book review. I love the gangsta rapper at a bar mitzvah line — and oh, man, that Komunyakaa poem! ::swoon::