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This book is a unique compendium of contemporary art, poetry, performance, and scholarship inspired by the life and works of David Drake, AKA Dave the Potter, an enslaved artist and poet in antebellum South Carolina. Historically rich and artistically inviting, the book is sure to be of interest to readers seeking to explore how Dave's experiences and artistic creations continue to resonate with contemporary practitioners and audiences.--Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University P. Gabrielle Foreman's Praise Songs for Dave the Potter is a glorious exploration and reclamation of the work of a poet and master artisan whose influence can be measured, not only in the beauty and richness of his own pieces, but as a present and vibrant ancestor inspiring new work. In a highlight of this book, Foreman brings together Glenis Redmond and Jonathan Green and places them in conversation, illuminating the life and work of David Drake to restore his legacy to our collective imagination. In this volume, one of the first to give equal weight to his writing and his vessels, Foreman has given us a praiseworthy work that is both timely and necessary.--Natasha Trethewey, nineteenth Poet Laureate of the United States Through the glorious and brilliant words of the artists who came after him, Dave the Potter is remembered. Praise Songs for Dave the Potter is a long overdue love letter to one of the few enslaved folks whose art made it into this moment in time. It is a calling to the ones whose work got lost in the plunder of Black bodies. It is an ode. A 'because of you, we are.' A nod to Black genius. A prayer.--Jacqueline Woodson author of the National Book Award-winning Brown Girl Dreaming With Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, P. Gabrielle Foreman and her collaborators have conceived an innovative and necessary work of art and scholarship. . . . This volume is essential.--Shelly Jarenski author of Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and National Literature, 1839-1893

This book is a unique compendium of contemporary art, poetry, performance, and scholarship inspired by the life and works of David Drake, AKA Dave the Potter, an enslaved artist and poet in antebellum South Carolina. Historically rich and artistically inviting, the book is sure to be of interest to readers seeking to explore how Dave's experiences and artistic creations continue to resonate with contemporary practitioners and audiences.--Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University With Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, P. Gabrielle Foreman and her collaborators have conceived an innovative and necessary work of art and scholarship. . . . This volume is essential.--Shelly Jarenski author of Immersive Words: Mass Media, Visuality, and National Literature, 1839-1893

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P. Gabrielle Foreman is a poet’s daughter and interdisciplinary scholar raised on the southside of Chicago and Venice Beach, California. She is the author or editor of five books, including The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. She is the founding director of the Colored Conventions Project and professor of English, African American studies, and history at Penn State University, where she holds the Paterno Family Chair of Liberal Arts and co-directs the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk.

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