SDS Exploring Art and Poetry in the Month of June

This June Sisters of the Desert Sun will explore their inner artist through painting.  SDS will participate in the increasingly popular art and wine events at a local gallery.  Before we get there we'll be reading renowned author and poet Ntozake Shange's I Live in Music.  This work brings together poetry, music and art as it features more than 20 works by Romare Bearden, Harlem  Renaissance artist.  For more information about this and other Sisters of the Desert Sun activities visit us on Facebook, Goodreads and Twitter or send us an email at sistersofthedesertsun@gmail.com.

Publisher's Overview

Shange's lyrical poem is a tribute to the language of music and the magical, often mystical, rhythms that connect people. Music defines who we are as individuals, the places where we live, and how we exist within our communities. Music is life.

Written in a syncopated style that has its own melody, the poem is perfectly married to twenty-one extraordinary and diverse works from Romare Bearden who once said, "I paint in the tradition of the blues."

Here is a unique and visionary book that speaks, indeed sings, to both children and adults and is, at once, compelling, profond, and entertaining.

A unique and visionary book that speaks to both adults and children, I Live in Music is a lyrical poem that celebrates the language of music and the magical, often mystical, rhythms that connect human lives. The poem is brought vividly to life through the paintings of one of America's premier artists, Romare Bearden.