Mountain Spells

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Poetry Winner 2025 International Firebird Book Awards</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Former poet laureate of Belfast Maine Afrofuturist/Oro-shamanic poet and bass clarinetist Toussaint St. Negritude dazzles with this debut collection of poems featuring an ensemble of cosmic tones the late Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks once called full of sweet sounds and surprises.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>Through the inspiration of life jazz and nature </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)><em>Mountain Spells</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)> is about the intrinsic clarity of emancipation expressing all found intersections of what the author sees and experiences and how this Black/queer/high-hat-wearing artist envisions the world through the lens of spirituality the African diaspora and nature as his home. Each poem written in Vermont expresses the whole cosmos of collective liberation. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(87 87 87 1)>I listened to the birds to the sky what the leaves were telling me says St. Negritude and captured it all in improvisational freeform and musical poetry lovely and changing as the seasons themselves.</span></p>