Will Harris ist ein Dichter und Essayist, dessen Werk gekonnt die Komplexität von Identität, Erbe und dem zeitgenössischen Leben navigiert. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch eine fesselnde Dringlichkeit und scharfen Intellekt aus, wobei er sich oft mit den Feinheiten multikultureller Erfahrungen und der Suche nach Zugehörigkeit in der modernen Welt befasst. Sowohl in seiner Poesie als auch in seiner Prosa schafft Harris eine kraftvolle persönliche Stimme, die tiefe Wahrheiten über die menschliche Verfassung aufdeckt. Er wird für seine ausgeprägte Fähigkeit gefeiert, die Essenz unserer gegenwärtigen Existenz mit bemerkenswerter Sensibilität und Präzision einzufangen.
Mixed-Race Superman is a reflection on the lives of two very different supermen: Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by the Klu Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Will Harris argues that the mixed-race background of each gave them a shapelessness that was a form of resistance. Drawing on his own personal experience and examining the way that these two men have been embedded in our collective consciousness, Harris asks what they can teach us about race and heroism.
"A startlingly radical and surreal poetic journey, RENDANG takes the reader from West Sumatra to pzlanet Mongo via Gray's Inn Road, aligting on Indonesian artefacts, gentrification, and citizenry. RENDANG is an urgent comment on what it means to be a person now, a dissection of and love letter to the histories, places, and things that make us."--Front flap.
Chronicling his journey from Taylor, Mississippi, Dr. Will Harris shares a deeply personal memoir that highlights his evolution into a celebrated gospel musician and educator. The narrative explores his challenges growing up in a tumultuous musical family and his influential role as a Minister of Music. It emphasizes his spiritual growth, professional achievements, and dedication to musical education, illustrating a life shaped by faith, resilience, and the transformative power of music. Harris's story offers an inspiring glimpse into his unique experiences and convictions.
"From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate. Featured in Food and Country, premiering at Sundance 2023. Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics, steroids, and more. His ancestors had built a highly profitable, conventionally-run machine, but over time he found himself disgusted with the excess, cruelty, and smalltown devastation this system entailed. So he bet the farm on forging a different way of doing things. One that works with nature not against it, and bridges the quickly widening delta between consumers and their food. Armed with tenacity, conviction and an outsized tolerance for risk, Harris called his approach "radical traditional" and it made him the pioneer of regenerative agriculture long before the phrase existed. At once an intimate, multi-generational memoir and a microcosm of American agriculture at large, A BOLD RETURN TO GIVING A DAMN offers a pathway back to producing food the right way. At a time when food supply chains are straining, climate-induced catastrophes are playing havoc with harvests, and concern around who owns America's farmland are more prescient than ever, Will Harris urges us to consider where the food we eat really comes from, and to re-connect to the places and people who raise what we eat each day. With keen storytelling, a good dose of irreverence, and an unflinching willingness to speak truth to power, Harris shows us why it's never been more important to know your farmer than now"-- Provided by publisher
