Clive Saffron’s A Rhyming Explosion of Love and Emotion is a personal anthology of poetry that expresses the feelings and emotions experienced from falling in love. This collection not only explores the positive experiences from love but also the heartache and pain associated with relationships through difficult times. For Clive, love is a force that inspires, gives hope, belief and the strength to never give up. A Rhyming Explosion of Love and Emotion has been inspired by love and created to continue to inspire, where beginnings may lead to endings and endings lead to new beginnings. Clive hopes the force of love may be the source of inspiration to all. “My hope is that the readers of my poetry will be inspired by my words and be able to connect with their deeper meaning, as well as have them resonate with their own experiences of love”, comments poet, Clive.

The LORD thy GOD in the midst of thee is mighty, He will save (Zephaniah 3:17) Shattered mind! Broken dreams! Emotional Financial Mental Physical Psychological GODs abundant love exploded inside of me!

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.