Thursday, July 15, 2010
Hustler'sGuide to the Game Called LIfe
Coming Soon from Black Bird PressHustler’s Guide to the Game
Called Life
Volume II, the Wisdom of Plato Negro
Marvin X
Contents
Parable of Value
Parable of Plato Negro’s Republic of North American Africans
Plato Negro’s Republic and Morality
Plato Negro’s Republic, Newark: A Case Study
Parable of Leave Me ‘Lone
Parable of a Nigguh
Parable of Slow Dance on the Killing Floor
Parable of the Demons
Parable of Solutions
Parable of Da Corner
Parable of Lord Have Mercy
Parable of Jazz
Parable of Nigguh Please!
Parable of Helen Thomas
Parable of Parental Partiality
Parable of the Gaza Concentration Camp
Parable of the Wannabe Actor, Part II
Parable of Women without Men
Parable of Trinkets and Gadgets
Parable of the Man who could Write
Parable of the Man Who Talked to No One
Parable of the Man Who Fell
Parable of the Negro as Terrorist
Parable of the White Woman
Parable of the Dying White Man
Parable of the Tour
Parable of the Mike
Parable of the Reader’s Theatre
Parable of Stormy Weather
Parable of Ancestor Coretta Scott King
Parable of the Religious Haters
Parable of the Poet
Parable of the OaklandPigs
Parable of Walter Riley
Parable of Oakland’s Day of Absence
Parable of I am Oscar Grant
Parable of Oakland at the Precipice
Parable of the Angel
Parable of Living in the Last Days
Parable of the San Francisco Negro
Parable of the Death and Resurrection of a City
Parable of the Spider
Parable of July 4, 1910
Parable of a beautiful day in the Bay
Parable of a City Traumatized
Parable of Oakland Police Riot
Parable of the Father who lost two Sons
Parable of I Shot the Sheriff
Parable of the Wannabe Actor
Parable of the Letter
Parable of the Moment
Fable of the horse, cow and bull
Parable of Prayer
Parable of the Death Angel
Parable of Pain
Parable of Malcolm’s Killer
Parable of the Immigrant
Parable of Bitch Led Nigguhs
Parable of the Neo-Haitian Revolution
Parable of the Butt Kickers
Parable of the Penguin
Parable of the Catholic Church
Parable of the Poetic Victory
Parable of how to stop killing in the Pan African hood
Platonic Negro Dialogue on the Poetic Mission
Parable of Woman Stoned to Death
Parable of Bobby Seale’s 73rd Birthday
Parable of Mythology of Pussy and Dick Hits Mississippi
Parable of Mythology of Pussy and Dick Hits Howard University
Parable of Mythology of Pussy and Dick at Howard University, Final Notes
Parable of Mythology as Hottest Book in Oakland
Parable to the Common People of Oakland
Parable of a Pan African Love
Parable of Harlem’s Celebration of Amiri Baraka’s 75th
Parable of Nisa Ra on Mythology of Pussy
Parable of Plato Negro’s Great Grandfather
Parable of Fahizah Alim
Parable of You Don’t Know Me!
Black Bird Press, 2010
1222 Dwight Way
Berkeley Ca 94702
300 pages
$100.00
Order now, pre-publication discount less 40%
Wisdom of Plato Negro in San Francisco Theatre Festival
Sunday, August 8, The Academy of Da Corner Reader's Theatre will perform parables from theWisdom of Plato Negro at the San Francisco Theatre Festival, YebraBuena Center, 3rd and Mission, downtown San Francisco. Performersinclude Rashidah Sabreen, music, Raynetta Rayzetta, choreography/dance,Paradise, reader, Talibah, reader, Valarie Harvey, reader,
Mechelle LaChaux, reader/singer.
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Comments
$100.00. The first copy was purchased by Attorney Walter Riley, who was beaten by the Oakland Police during their riot.
Also available: Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yoself, essays on Obama Drama, by Marvin X.
$19.95. The first copy was purchased by a young hustler from the Bronx, NY, yesterday.
At the Berkeley Flea Market, one brother looked at the promo and said he didn't agree with me. I didn't argue with him.
When I gave the promo to another brother walking with his girl, he promptly pulled his pants up. And when I saw him leaving the Flea Market, he still had his pants up! Ache!