A vital hub of poetry readings, performance, publications and radical politics in 1960s New York, the Umbra Workshop was a cornerstone of the African American a

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Infused with dark, tumultuous, and urgent feeling--emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in intensity.

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A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask an