Not James Brown But Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
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Baltimore, MD (BlackNews.com) - Men waking "singing in hieroglyphics" the sweat from their love making creating a new Nile? Is this possible? To restore black love is as challenging as rebuilding the pyramids. Personal Passion is a poetry and photography collaboration that is symmetry between the visual art and the written word. Of course the women are beautiful, and distracting, however "Personal Passion" is also a mirror to encourage the reader to love and celebrate the erotic.
Black women have not always been proud of their bodies, so Personal Passion is then a walk to freedom. Let's begin with the lady with cuffs. You look at her holding them in her left hand. Do you want to play with her? Or is this a reminder that perhaps many of our men [and women] are outlaws?
Personal Passion, by Jesse Sharpe, brings together photography and poetry (phoetry). One is therefore directed to the image and the metaphor. It is seductive, and the visual connection between the poetry and the photography is not only moving, but requires the reader to look from the photograph to the poem for explanation.
"The poems included in Personal Passion have a fragrance to them. It's a combination of incense and flowers. The sensual tone captures a degree of moisture and one assumes all the wetness is from two bodies and not one."
- E. Ethelbert Miller, poet and literary activists
Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University
From a woman's point of view:
Personal Passion is remarkable book of poetry and erotic photography. Jesse Sharpe and his colleagues are able to capture the beauty and sensuality of the women and the tenderness of the men. The work is a journey of love and passion.
- Carolyn Johnston, Prof. of American History at Eckerd College
All those who have reviewed this collaboration agree, the best advice is to purchase a copy and to become immersed in it. Personal Passion is such a tasteful tribute of phoetry (photography and poetry) to women, that it is deserving of a both golden quill and golden frame.
Jesse Sharpe is a native Washingtonian (D.C.), and now writes now just a stone's throw away in Maryland, that is if you don't catch him writing on the city's subway. The sequel to Personal Passion, Mannerizmz is due to be released in January 2007. His other books include Hurry Home (war chronicles), a collection of love poetry in the midst of war; Menfolk Talk'n, poetry and a short story lamenting the destruction of young black boys; Foreplay (hands gliden'n ovah me), erotic poetry; and an amazing children's activity workbook - My Afri-bets Learning Book - that combines poetry, vocabulary building, Swahili, cutting and pasting as well as handwriting practice in one book.
Personal Passion, as well as the author's other books may be ordered online at www.sharpebooksonline.com or from bookstores and other online sources. Email Jesse Sharpe at sharpesolutions1@comcast.net or contact him at 240-375-6033 for reviews, book signings, or more information.
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