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Captain Blackman
336 pages paperback
AALBC Price - $20.00
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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.
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Clifford's Blues
309 pages paperback
William's latest novel
1st Edition
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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
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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.
~ Excerpted from Sacred Fire |

Safari West: Poems
$15.00
78 pages paperback
Winner 1998
American Book Award
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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 copyAvailability/Total Cost
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Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year
Diary of Article Writing:
Topicalities
The New York State Fair, 1953
Sex in Black and White
This is my Country Too
Three Negro Families
The Strongest Negro Institution
The Great White Whore
An Afro-American Looks to South Africa
Israel
Personalities
Subject: Charlie Parker
Dick Gregory: Desegregated Comic
Smalls Paradise
Marcus Garvey-Never Before or Since
Malcolm X
Jack Johnson and The Great White Hope
Romare Bearden
Chester Himes-My Man Himes
Personals
We Regret to Inform You
Black Man in Europe
A Pessimistic Postscript
Career by Accident
Time and Tide: The Roots of Black Awareness
Grenada: Their Country Too
Shepard and a Negro |

!Click Song
$20.00
430 pages paperback
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"The 'private and public' vicissitudes of a black novelist
trying to establish himself as a writer of distinction are chronicled in this revealing
tale of the New York cultural scene from World War II to the present--told with directness
of language and feeling" ~ NY Times
"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"
~ Miriam Makeba

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