Singing in Color - Umberto Tosi
Charles R. Johnson Charles R. Johnson puts the goal of our latest issue of Chicago Quarterly Review in clear, beguiling simple terms. "So one has to ask," he writes in his introduction to the black American writers' issue that he edited: "how did our black storytellers , poets, essayists and artists sing the world in the last year and a half?" Johnson asks -- in poetic uniquely American terms that echo Ralph Ellison and Walt Whitman: "What kinds of worlds do black creators sing in the twenty-first century?" Johnson is the guest editor" who produced -- curated in the most meaningful sense -- CQR's latest special issue, just released -- Volume 33 devoted to African American writing. As Johnson describes it in the issue's powerful introduction: "Moving as a phenomenologist would through the contributions of twenty-seven poets, storytellers, essayists and artists in this special issue of Chicago Quarterly Review - of profiles on our li...