It's All Love

Edited by Marita Golden

In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power,  danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial,  communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke  up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”;  memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts, in a piece he calls “Learning the Name  Dad,” writes stirringly about serving time in prison and how that  transformed his life for the better; New York Times bestselling  author Pearl Cleage is at her best in the delicate, touching “Missing  You”; award-winning author David Anthony Durham enraptures readers with  his “An Act of Faith”; New York Times bestselling author L. A.  Banks is both funny and wise in her beautiful essay on discovering love  as a child, “Two Cents and a Question.” And the poetry of love is here,  too—from Gwendolyn Brooks’s classic “Black Wedding Song” to works by  Nikki Giovanni, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Kwame Alexander. It’s All Love is a dazzling, delightfully diverse exploration of the wonderful gift of love.