Phillip B. Williams Knihy

Focusing on the black, queer literary community, this collection showcases poetry and conversations among prominent contemporary poets. It emerged from a blog by Jericho Brown, highlighting young, black, and gay voices that enrich the literary landscape often dominated by white queer writers. Featuring works and dialogues from Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Saeed Jones, Rickey Laurentiis, Phillip B. Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson, the book aims to diversify the poetic discourse. Jericho Brown's introduction sets the stage for this vital contribution to literature.

In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates or 'corsairs' based in ports such as Malta and Algiers. It was also a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Phillip Williams here provides a detailed examination of the oared warships used in the fighting, the structures of political and military organization, the role of geography and the environment and the respective claims to be defending 'Christendom' and 'Islam' advanced by Habsburg rulers such as Charles V and Philip II and the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Providing a unique perspective on early modern maritime conflict, this book will be essential reading for all students and researchers of Mediterranean History and the early modern world.

An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America's darkest days.

Ein bildgewaltiges Epos über Freiheit, das in der fiktiven Stadt Ours in den 1830er Jahren spielt. Gegründet von der geheimnisvollen Saint, bietet sie Verlorenen Zuflucht. Doch als neue Mächte eindringen, stellt die Gemeinschaft ihre Sicherheit in Frage. Phillip B. Williams' »Ours« ist eine intime Geschichte über Menschsein.