Norman Loftis is an American poet, novelist and filmmaker, whose work has focused on the African-American experience, including his own upbringing in Chicago's
South Side.
Works
Norman Loftis's first book of poems, ''Exiles and Voyages'', was published in 1970 and was dedicated, "To my first friend,
W.H. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in ...
.”
A later work, ''Black Anima'', was published in 1973 by
Liveright
Boni & Liveright (pronounced "BONE-eye" and "LIV-right") is an American trade book publisher established in 1917 in New York City by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. Over the next sixteen years the firm, which changed its name to Horace Liv ...
and describes an odyssey "from the
Alamac Hotel on Upper Broadway through the underground of contemporary Europe to
Queen Nefertiti
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti () ( – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a radical change in national religious policy, in whic ...
's Egypt and back in search of black identity."
His films include ''Small Time'' (1990), which records lives of petty crime among young black men. His film ''Messenger'' (1994) tells the story of a bicycle courier in Manhattan. It is considered to be a
remake
A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same ...
of
Vittorio De Sica's ''
Bicycle Thieves''.
References
African-American poets
20th-century American poets
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American people
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