The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.

This book of poems, stories, and essays draws together examples illustrating a mind immersed in Black legends and white myths, and in the growing realization of our place in the world and time, and in irresistible pull of the future: starships, floods, dancers twinned by crystal-filled caverns, and iridescent crops of living retribution. In her interview, Thomas explores the intricate intersections of poetry and activism and underscores the way she inhabits them. Taste with this book's tongue the salty sweetness of her world.

Sheree Renée Thomas is a multiple award-winning author, poet, and editor. She curated World Fantasy Award?winning anthologies Dark Matter 1 and 2 and was the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois's science fiction to speculative fiction readers. She's associate editor of Obsidian: Literature & the Arts in the African Diaspora and senior editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.