The Book of Love (1992)

Writes Cokes In 1984 I conceived of the idea of producing a documentary that framed its own devices I was interested in how a woman specifically a Black woman would speak in a television context In The Book of Love Cokes mother recounts her life through interview stories and song effectively representing history through the personal Through intimate subjectivity Cokes attempts to understand his own present and history by tracingretracing the life of his mother EAI