Hoodoo You Love(1st Edition) Prose, Poetry, and Art from the Black Rooster Workshop by ReneeStout, Gary Lilley Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 1998 by Bootleg Books/Black Rooster Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9668755-0-8, ISBN: 0-9668755-0-8
"When poet Gary Lilley and visual artist Renée Stout collaborated on Hoodoo You Love, the second art-lit book from the Black Rooster Workshop, they made a conscious decision to include prose. "[W]e've stepped out of our comfort zones," Lilley writes in the introduction, "and decided...to create in an unfamiliar genre, to not play our principle instruments, to take a risk." The risk pays off: The prose is some of the book's strongest writ ..."
"Renee Stout's work explores the contours of the African American experience and the existence of an underground system of African-derived folk beliefs as transmitted from slavery to the present. This system, known variously as Hoodoo or conjuring, has its origins in herbal medicine, root work, and a belief in the spiritual attributes of plants and animals. For many years, the artist has used the alter ego Fatima Mayfield, a fictitious h ..."
HER FORBIDDEN KNIGHT. by Rex Stout Hardcover, 265 Pages, Published 1997 by Carroll & Graf Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7394-1087-5, ISBN: 0-7394-1087-3
"Renee Stout lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she is strongly influenced by the city’s political, social, and religious composition. She looks to the belief systems of various African peoples and their New World descendants for direction and visual inspiration. Through her artwork Stout hopes to empower others to improve society by healing themselves. Her artwork seems to be a personal journey, which she invites fortunate trave ..."