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Seduction chronicles in verse, major figures of our time indelibly noted by the poet. He's the voice of his culture from Harlem's artistic world to the "wired" world of today, in vast epic passages that seem to say, if a man is what he does he'd better do it with majesty. Troupe writes beyond forgiveness or reconciliation: he's done with discussing submission or surrender in our lives, he goes right to what emboldens." –
Midwest Book Review "In Quincy Troupe's new collection
Seduction, we see the evolution of a man who has been steeped in and devoted to the cultural productions of black artistic life for over five decades. These poems carry with them a sincerity and clarity always imbued in landscape and focused on the questions that shape an Africanist humanity. The poems found here are intrepid and made nuanced by a vision long fixated on liberation. Troupe's poems are also a welcome reminder that the Black Arts Movement wasn't simply a moment in time, but an unfolding that remains ever-present."–Matthew Shenoda, author of
Tahrir Suite and coeditor of
Bearden's Odyssey