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  <name><![CDATA[Tisa Bryant]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[As a writer, poet, and radical cineaste, Tisa Bryant’s work often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, splicing, juxtaposing and threading seemingly disparate elements from personal history, film, and observations as a global citizen, into multi-layered texts that demand new forms.  
Her first book, &lt;i&gt;Unexplained Presence&lt;/i&gt; (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. In her introduction to Bryant’s recent reading, Stacy Szymaszek, director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York, said, “Like the great Edouard Glissant, her work is at once novel, essay and poetry, these modulations emerging and transmuting in a practice Bryant's latest publication, a collaborative volume with author/filmmaker Chris Kraus for the Belladonna Elders Series, contains an excerpt from her next novel, &lt;i&gt;[the curator]&lt;/i&gt;, a rumination on cinema and black female ways of seeing.

Maintaining an active engagement with visual arts and literary community, Bryant has work forthcoming in &lt;i&gt;Life As We Show It: Writing on Film,&quot; is currently devising her first neo-Benshi (movie talking) performance, and is a founding editor/publisher of the multimedia hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Lorna Simpson, Jaime Cortez, Marlon Riggs, Chris Kraus, Agnes Varda, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Mark Rappaport, John R. Keene, Roland Barthes, Tracy Moffatt, Barbara Christian]]></influences>    <hometown>Tucson</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Unexplained Presence]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.76</average_rating>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Encyclopedia Vol 1 A-E]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kate Schatz]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Miranda Mellis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.78</average_rating>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Belladonna Elders Series #3]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tisa Bryant]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tisa Bryant]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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