::The Book::
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Our Flesh of Flames
Collages by Theodore A. Harris
Captions by Amiri Baraka
Introduction by M.K. Asante, Jr.
Afterword by Gene Ray
"The book is a powerful collaboration. The collages are a concentrated dose of earth tone images and colors that startle and transform the consciousness. Baraka's words are red hot, they stick with the mind and disturb anyone's restful sleep... Looking at Harris' images, you can't help but leaving hearing the echoes of George Padmore, W.E.B. DuBois, Elizabeth Catlett and Richard Wright demanding that art be of service to the struggle to free African-Americans and all other people..."
—Terry E. Johnson, Philadelphia Tribune
"Harris and Baraka's visual poetry of agony wrings out our despair through images and words of truth. Hearing, seeing and reading the truth is an inoculation against hopelessness as it unties the will and pumps up energy to resist. In new American Nazi times Baraka's words and Harris' images weave an oracle declaring the vivid ugly truth of Americas legacy of slavery and racism while America lynches Iraq, testing heinous weapons on soft human brown flesh, like we lynched Vietnam, Panama... Harris and Baraka are healing us and directing us to see clear through the lies and deception. Their clarity provokes insights, energizing us on to deeds of resistance.
—Howardena Pindell, Artist, Professor
"This seminal collaboration between Theodore Harris and Amiri Baraka exemplies the immense possibilities of anti-imperialistic cultural work!
Firmly entrenched in the resistance tradition in both stylistic innovation and thematic counter-ideological struggle."
—Tony Bolden University of Alabama