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 Captain Blackman 336 pages paperback AALBC Price - $20.00 
autographed copy Availability/Total Cost Named "among the most important works of fiction of the decade" by the New York Times Book Review when first published in 1972, Captain Blackman is the first book to be published in the Coffee House Press's Black Arts Movement reprint series. True to form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he hallucinates back in time as a soldier in each of America's wars from 1775 to 1975. |
 Clifford's Blues 309 pages paperback William's latest novel 1st Edition AALBC Price - $20.00 autographed copy Availability/Total Cost If there is an undiscovered aspect of the black experience, it will be found by John A. Williams. In his newest of twelve novels, Williams presents the fictionalized narrative, Clifford's Blues. Told in journal form, this novel is the story of Clifford Pepperidge, a gay musician performing in Europe during the thirties. After he is caught in a compromising situation with a American diplomat, Clifford spends the duration of Hitler's reign in Dachau. He escapes the worst horrors of the camp by working as the house servant to an SS officer. |
 The Man Who Cried I Am 403 pages paperback $20.00
autographed copy Availability/Total
Cost Novelist, poet, and journalist John Alfred
Williams has created in Max Reddick an unforgettable character: irascible, fiercely
intelligent, irredeemable, and honorable. The Man Who Cried I Am is a stunning
chronicle of not only Williams's life but the lives of all black people who have refused
to be victims: blacks who have had to leave their country to claim their individuality,
intellectual independence, and rightful recognition, and who have always yearned to be
"home" but struggled to find such a place. |
 Safari West: Poems $15.00
78 pages paperback Winner 1998 American Book Award autographed copy Availability/Total Cost With the publication of Safari West, John A. Williams turns to poetry, his first love, while never straying from his exploration of the African-American experience and the issues he's examined since writing The Angry Ones in 1960. The poems range in time from 1953's "The Cool Ones" and "The Age of Bop" through 1997, reminiscent at times of Langston Hughes or Robert Hayden, but always John A. Williams: the observant, telling detail; the visceral image that plays off the measured meter and structured rhymes; the consistent and insistent voice that cries 'I am.' Many of the poems included in Safari West appear here in print for the first time, including four, "Many Thousand Gone: Version 95," "John Brown," "Nat Turner's Profession" and "Moremi," from the libretto of Williams' opera, Vanqui. Safari West is a powerful collection of poetry, one of resonance, one of importance, from one of the great voices in African-American letters. |
 Flashbacks $20.00
440 page paperback Original 1974 autographed copy Availability/Total Cost Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing: Topicalities Personalities Personals |
 !Click Song $20.00
430 pages paperback autographed copy Availability/Total
Cost "In my native village...there is a
song we always sing...it's called the click song by the English because they cannot say
!CLICK !CLOCK !CWLUNG"
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