It's All Love : Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends

In It?s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in ?My Own Happy Ending?; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls ?Learning the Name Dad,? writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that transformed his life for the better; New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching ?Missing You?; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with his ?An Act of Faith?; New York Times bestselling author L. A. Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love as a child, ?Two Cents and a Question.? And the poetry of love is here, too?from Gwendolyn Brooks?s classic ?Black Wedding Song? to works by Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander. It?s All Love is a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love.