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The Works of Marvin X

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Quite extraordinary! Who else in America publishes two and three books a year? Who else within the Black Community engages our folks daily to liberate themselves in real and cyberspace? Congratulations! on your wondrous achievements.
--Rudolph Lewis, Editor, Chickenbones.com, A Journal

The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/fables

Volumes I and II, 2010

by Marvin X

Black Bird Press
1222 Dwight Way Berkeley CA 94702
570 pages, 2010
$100.00


He's the USA's Rumi!
--Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club, NYC

Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland.
--Ishmael Reed

Jeremiah, I presume.
Rudolph Lewis, Found Editor Chickenbones: A Journal

Is Marvin X a parable or fable? We doubt a Marvin X exists!
We double doubt there is a Plato Negro!
--Amiri Baraka

He is a Master Teacher in many fields of thought—religion and psychology, Sociology and anthropology, history and politics, literature and the humanities.

He is a needed Counselor, for he knows himself, on the deepest of personal levels and he reveals that self to us, that we might be his beneficiaries…. If you want to reshape (clean up, raise) your consciousness, this is a book to savor, to read again and again—to pass onto a friend or lover.

….Malcolm X ain’t got nothing on Marvin X. Still Marvin has been ignored and silenced like Malcolm would be ignored and silenced if he had lived on into the Now.

Marvin’s one of the most extraordinary, exciting black intellectuals living today—writing, publishing, performing with Sun Ra’s Musicians (Live in Philly at Warm Daddies, available on DVD from BPP), reciting, filming, producing conferences (Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness, San Francisco Black Radical Book Fair); he’s ever engaging, challenging the respectable and the comfortable. He like Malcolm, dares to say things fearlessly, in the open (in earshot of the white man) that so many Negroes feel, think and speak on the corner, in the barbershops and urban streets of black America….

—Rudolph Lewis, Editor, ChickenBones: A Journal

…People who know Marvin X already know him as a peripatetic, outspoken, irreverent, poetic “crazy nigger,” whose pen is continually and forever out-of-control. As a professional psychologist, I hasten to invoke the disclaimer that that is in no way a diagnosis or clinical impression of mine. I have never actually subjected this brother to serious psychoanalytical scrutiny and have no wish to place him on the couch, if only because I know of no existing psycho-diagnostic instrumentality of pathology of normalcy that could properly evaluate Marvin completely.

—Dr. Nathan Hare, Black Think Tank, San Francisco

Mythology of Pussy and Dick, toward Healthy Psychosocial Sexuality by Marvin X, 416 pages, $49.95