From Chariot, published in May by Wave Books. I have aspired to the ease of the drink-steadied harper who lives the tune so thoroughly his fast pink hands dance over… ...

I n every city there is a district which is called “tough” — a district which decent people, afraid of insult or theft, shun in both daylight and darkness. It… ...

From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village; I took this to mean ...