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Making Callaloo : 25 years of Black literature / edited by Charles Henry Rowell

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Author:
Rowell, Charles H  Search this
Physical description:
xxx, 433 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Literary collections
Date:
2002
20th century
Contents:
Almanzar, Jose Alcantara: "My singular Irene" -- Butler, Octavia E.: "The evening and the morning and the night." -- Conde, Maryse: "The 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: "The Venus Hottentot" -- Barrax, Gerald: "An 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: "The times" and "Lazarus" -- Derricotte, Toi: "The 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 "A Kiss in the dark" -- Etienne, Phebus: "A 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: "The 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 "The clearing" --Roberson, Ed: "Elegy for a white cock" -- Roy, Lucinda H.: " Book review" -- Sanchez, Sonia: " A 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 "The economy of power" -- Young, Kevin: "The escape artist" and "Cassius Clay by Basquiat"
Topic:
American literature--African American authors  Search this
African Americans  Search this
American literature  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_682614