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The essential Clarence Major : prose and poetry /

"Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime A...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Major, Clarence (Autor)
Otros Autores: Corthron, Kia (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part One: NOVEL EXCERPTS
  • From Reflex and Bone Structure
  • From My Amputations
  • From Such Was the Season
  • From Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar
  • From Dirty Bird Blues
  • From One Flesh
  • Part Two: SHORT STORIES
  • My Mother and Mitch
  • Chicago Heat
  • Bourbon for Breakfast
  • Victoria
  • Sketch
  • Innocence
  • Five Years Ago
  • Part Three: ESSAYS
  • Icarus Crashes and Rises from His Own Ashes
  • "Thanks for the Lunch, Baby": Clarence Major Has Lunch with James Baldwin
  • Richard Wright: The Long Hallucination
  • Painting and Poetry
  • A Meditation on Kenneth Patchen's Painted Poems: Kingdoms and Utopias
  • Reaching and Leaving the Point
  • Necessary Distance: Afterthoughts on Becoming a Writer
  • A Paris Fantasy Transformed
  • Rhythm: Talking That Talk
  • Don, Here Is My Peppermint Striped Shirt
  • Rhythm: A Hundred Years of African American Poetry
  • Struga '75
  • Looking at the Dial
  • Claude McKay: My 1975 Adventure
  • Reading William Faulkner's Light in August
  • In Search of Rebecca
  • Wallace Thurman and the Niggeratti Manor
  • Part Four: MEMOIR
  • From "Taking Chances: A Memoir of a Life in Art and Writing"
  • Part Five: POEMS
  • Supply and Demand
  • Hair
  • Round Midnight
  • Un Poco Loco
  • September Mendocino
  • The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage
  • Clay Bison in a Cave
  • Frenzy
  • Santa Maria dei Frari
  • Plein Air
  • East Lansing, Michigan
  • Evening Newspaper
  • Father
  • The Young Doctor (1916)
  • Morandi
  • Domestic Agenda
  • Water and Sand
  • Faith
  • Alchemy
  • No One Goes to Paris in August
  • Down and Up
  • From Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century
  • From Surfaces and Masks