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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry

by Clarence Major

The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry Clarence Major 9781469656007 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Clarence Major is one of America’s literary ma...

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The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major

by Clarence Major

The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major Clarence Major 9781496820686 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi In the first volume to collect the paintings and dr...

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Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998

by Clarence Major

Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998 Clarence Major 9781556590900 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Finalist for the National Book AwardDrawing his most outstanding work from n...

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Come By Here: My Mother’s Life

by Clarence Major

Come By Here: My Mother’s Life Clarence Major 9780471415183 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Lavish praise for come by here""With elegant simplicity and uncommon wisdom, Clarence Major gives us not just the tru...

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Waiting for Sweet Betty

by Clarence Major

Waiting for Sweet Betty Clarence Major 9781556591792 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press "I find myself writing poems about things I can’t paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, h...

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The Lurking Place

by Clarence Major

The Lurking Place Clarence Major 9781945665288 Fiction Manic D Press Manic D Press “Clarence Major’s fiction has amazed me for years. And now The Lurking Place. This novel captures the late sixties in...

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From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015

by Clarence Major

From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015 Clarence Major 9780820347967 Poetry University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetr...

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Sporadic Troubleshooting: Poems

by Clarence Major

Sporadic Troubleshooting: Poems Clarence Major 9780807176108 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Deeply felt and brimming with humor and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, ...

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Thunderclouds in the Forecast

by Clarence Major

Thunderclouds in the Forecast Clarence Major 9780810144262 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends—one Blac...

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Chicago Heat and Other Stories

by Clarence Major

Chicago Heat and Other Stories Clarence Major 9780996897327 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Having written more than eight novels, including My Amputations and Dirty Bird Blues, alongs...

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Down and Up: Poems

by Clarence Major

Down and Up: Poems Clarence Major 9780820345949 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their ch...

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Myself Painting: Poems

by Clarence Major

Myself Painting: Poems Clarence Major 9780807133675 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that com...

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Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism

by Clarence Major

Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism Clarence Major 9781566891097 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Bringing together critical essays, articles, and reviews by 1999 National Book Award ...

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Dirty Bird Blues

by Clarence Major

Dirty Bird Blues Clarence Major 9780143136590 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classi...

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My Studio: Poems

by Clarence Major

My Studio: Poems Clarence Major 9780807169001 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Renowned poet and painter Clarence Major examines the world through the lens of his art studio in this n...

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Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar

by Clarence Major

Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar Clarence Major 9780826356000 Fiction University of New Mexico Press University of New Mexico Press A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearThis novel, na...

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Reflex and Bone Structure

by Clarence Major

Reflex and Bone Structure Clarence Major 9781562790844 Poetry Mercury House Mercury House Book by Major, Clarence

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The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry

by Clarence Major

The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...

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Emergency Exit

by Clarence Major

Emergency Exit Clarence Major 9780914590583 Fiction Fiction Collective Two (FC2) University of Alabama Press This, Clarance Major’s fourth novel, is about people in a town in Connecticut that has just...

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My Amputations

by Clarence Major

My Amputations Clarence Major 9781573661430 Fiction Fiction Collective Two (FC2) University of Alabama Press This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-c...

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One Flesh

by Clarence Major

One Flesh Clarence Major 9780758204738 Poetry Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp.

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Such Was the Season (Voices of the South)

by Clarence Major

Such Was the Season (Voices of the South) Clarence Major 9780807128657 Fiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly...

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All-Night Visitors

by Clarence Major

All-Night Visitors Clarence Major 9781555534288 Poetry Northeastern Northeastern A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts ...

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Dirty Bird Blues (1996)

by Clarence Major

Dirty Bird Blues (1996) Clarence Major 9781562790837 Poetry Mercury House Mercury House The acclaimed author of Such Was the Season and Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang tells the s...

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Fun & Games: Short Fictions

by Clarence Major

Fun & Games: Short Fictions Clarence Major 9780930100346 Fiction Holy Cow Press Holy Cow Press novelist/poet’s first collection of short stories

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Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang

by Clarence Major

Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang Clarence Major 9780670852642 Nonfiction Viking Books Penguin Random House African-American slang cuts through logic and arrives at a quick, efficie...

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Calling the Wind: Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories

by Clarence Major

Calling the Wind: Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories Clarence Major 9780060183370 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Pivotal stories from post-slavery days through the Harlem Renaissanc...

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Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century

by Clarence Major

Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century Clarence Major 9781557130204 Poetry Sun and Moon Press Sun and Moon Press poetry on author’s mixed African/Zuni heritage

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Surfaces and Masks

by Clarence Major

Surfaces and Masks Clarence Major 9780918273437 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering ...

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Inside Diameter: The France Poems

by Clarence Major

Inside Diameter: The France Poems Clarence Major 9780905258096 Poetry Small Pr Distribution Small Pr Distribution poetry by editor of (1969) “The New Black Poetry”

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The Dark & Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work

by Clarence Major

The Dark & Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work Clarence Major 9780893881184 Poetry Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation

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Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk

by Clarence Major

Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk Clarence Major 9780710071781 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge A lively and unique collection of words and phrases used by the Black community in the Unite...

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Symptoms & Madness

by Clarence Major

Symptoms & Madness Clarence Major 9780870910654 Poetry Corinth Books Corinth Books

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Swallow the Lake

by Clarence Major

Swallow the Lake Clarence Major 9780819520548 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Poetry by an African American raised in Chicago.

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The New Black Poetry

by Clarence Major

The New Black Poetry Clarence Major 9780717801381 Poetry International Publishers International Publishers

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The Music: New and Selected Poems 1973-2023

by Everett Hoagland

The Music: New and Selected Poems 1973-2023 Everett Hoagland 9798988165538 Poetry Willow Publishing Willow Publishing Poetry collection by Everett Hoagland, winner of the 2023 American Book Award. The...

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What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change

by Sharyn Skeeter

What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Sharyn Skeeter 9781950584864 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Transition and change are 21st-century lived experiences. We want to know “wha...

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The Vain Conversation

by Anthony Grooms

The Vain Conversation Anthony Grooms 9781611178821 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 194...

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Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry)

by Yusef Komunyakaa

Condition Red: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (Poets on Poetry) Yusef Komunyakaa 9780472073443 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Condition Red collects writing by ...

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader

by Greg Tate

Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

by Lynda Koolish

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai   Will Alexander   Robe...

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Black Voices

by Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X

Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...

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Whose Song?: And Other Stories

by Thomas Glave

Whose Song?: And Other Stories Thomas Glave 9780872863750 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into ...

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