These brief anthologies of ethnic American literature are ideal for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. They are designed to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronologically by genre and represent ...
This comprehensive anthology presents the rich and diverse literature of pre-World War II California in four parts, each introduced by an essay that contextualizes the literary selections. Part I contains folk stories of native American tribes; part II presents diaries and letters of early settlers and explorers; part III contains literature of ...
Young, black, University of California educated, and dangerously back in love, Angelina Green is forced to make choices - intimate, political and spiritual - as she struggles to bring coherence and direction to her rollercaoaster Berkeley life.
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme throughout 100 new and previously-published poems. Selections evoke the cold, hard ...
Leaving Saturn, chosen by Al Young as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, is an ambitious and honest collection. Major Jackson, through both formal and free verse poems, renders visible the spirit of resilience, courage, and creativity he witnessed among his family, neighbors, and friends while growing up in Philadelphia. His poems ...
More than 90 of the top international jazz musician-cooks such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Max Roach, Carmen McRae, MyCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins talk about two things near to their hearts - music and food. Anecdotal biographies and stories about favourite foods - based on interviews with the artists - provide insight into ...
The renowned poet Al Young presents his first collection of poetry - Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons - since named California Poet Laureate by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this latest collection, Al Young again demonstrated why his poetry is beloved worldwide. While other poets speak, Al Young sings. His life spent in music and the work ...
This anthology is edited by the CALYX Young Women's Editorial Collective. Contributors include Lauri Connor, Lara Frankena, Jullianna Parr, Alex Zaphiris, and R. Teri Bilas.
"While drowning in the sea of sound", writes Al Young, "my whole life passes before me". These memoirs, essays, and informed vignettes tap into the evocative powers of music and song. On this thoroughly original, lyricized voyage through time and timelessness, jazz, blues, pop, country and western, classical, and Latin traditions get deliciously ...
Meet Mamie Franklin--formerly of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, now of Santa Monica, California. Hailed in the '50s for her domestic roles in Hollywood films, she now works as a housekeeper. By listening to her singular brand of earthy wit and psychic wisdom, readers see how she ultimately triumphs over events that would bring a lesser woman to her ...
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Hispanic-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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Dr. Nicolas Kanellos (Editor), Ishmael Reed (Editor)
