by Sheree Renée Thomas
PM Press
9/15/2026, paperback
SKU: 9798887441955
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.
Reviews:
"A gift for longtime Thomas fans and an ideal introduction for new comers." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"A master of the craft and a true literary alchemist, Thomas blends the joys and sorrows of action, diaspora, spirituality, culture, and love into absolute gold." --Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author
"A delightful journey connecting theAfrican diaspora's rich and wearied past to our hopeful futures, TheTongue I Dream In is Sheree Renée Thomas's love letter to the genre and anyone who ever looked to the stars in wonder. The poetry dazzles, the prose lingers, and the essays are a window into the brilliance of one of today's most influential voices in speculative fiction. This was wonderful, and I am better for having read it." --Justin C. Key, author of The Hospital at the End of the World
About the Author:
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.