| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxx, 433 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Almanzar, Jose Alcantara: "My singular Irene" -- Butler, Octavia E.: "Evening and the morning and the night" -- Conde, Maryse: "Breadnut and breadfruit" -- Danticat, Edwidge: from The Journals of water days 1986 -- Delany, Samuel R.: from Shoat rumblin -- Ellison, Ralph: "Cadillac flambe" -- Everett, Percival: "Meiosis" -- Forrest, Leon: "Sugar Groove" -- Glave, Thomas: "Whose song" -- Harris, Wilson: from Jonestown -- Johnson, Charles: from Rutherford's travels -- Jones, Gayl: from The Machete woman -- Kenan, Randall: "Now why come that is" -- Lee, Helen Elaine: "Silences" -- Mackey, Nathaniel: "Atet A.D." -- McCluskey, John, Jr.: from The River people -- McMillan, Terry: "Ma'Dear" -- Phillios, Caryl: from Cambridge -- Wideman, John Edhar: "Ascent by balloon from the yard of walnut street jail" -- Ai: "Blue suede shoes" -- Alexander, Elizabeth: "Venus Hottentot" -- Barrax, Gerald: "Audience of one" and "All my live ones" -- Berrouet-Oriol, Robert: "Dissidence, I" -- Brathwaite, Edward Kamau: from "Clips" -- Cassells, Cyrus: "Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson" -- Clifton, Lucille: "Times" and "Lazarus" -- Derricotte, Toi: "Promise" and "Holy Cross Hospital" -- Dixon, Melvin: "Heartbeats" and "Climbing Montmartre" -- Dove, Rita: "Straw hat," "Motherhood," "Headdress," and "Heroes" -- Edwards, Brent Hayes: "Middle ear recitation" -- Ellis, Thomas Sayers: "Fatal April" and "Kiss in the dark" -- Etienne, Phebus: "Ride to the wedding" -- Hamer, Forrest: "Goldsboro narratives" -- Harper, Michael S.: "Modulations on a theme for Josephus Long" -- Harris, Claire: "Mysteries" and "Framed" -- Hayes, Terrance: "Touch" -- Jackson, Angela: "Love of travellers" -- Jackson, Major L.: "Some kind of crazy" -- Komunyakaa, Yusef: "Venus's-flytraps," "Red pagoda," "Birds on a powerline," and "Slam, dunk, and hook" -- Lorde, Audre: "Fishing the white water" and "Jessehelms" -- Major, Clarence: "Difficulty with perspective" and "Unwanted memory" -- Mitchell, Karen: "Country after country" and "Forgiveness" -- Morejon, Nancy: "Richard bought his flute" -- Moss, Thylias: "One for all newborns" and "Holding" -- Mullen, Harryette: "Fable" and "Unspoken" -- Osbey, Brenda Marie: "Setting loose the icons" -- Pereira, Edimilson de Almeida: "Calunga lungara" -- Phillips Carl: "Moving target" and "Clearing" -- Roberson, Ed: "Elegy for a white cock" -- Roy, Lucinda H.: "Book review" -- Sanchez, Sonia: "Poem for my father" and "Sequences" -- Strange, Sharan: "Childhood" and "Offering" -- Trethewey, Natasha: "Letter home" and "Vignette" -- Walker, Alice: "On stripping bark from myself" -- Welburn, Ron: "Yellow wolf spirit" -- Wright, Jay: "Naming the Asturian bird" and "Economy of power" -- Young, Kevin: "Escape artist" and "Cassius Clay by Basquiat" |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Rowell, Charles H.
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| ISBN |
0312290217 |
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0312288980 paperback |
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