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African-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
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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 ...
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The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945
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Jack Hicks (Editor), Al Young (Editor), James D Houston (Editor)
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 ...
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Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs
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Janet Coleman, Al Young
Recollection of the life and times of one of the most tempestuous talents of jazz.
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Something about the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry
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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 ...
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California Fiction
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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.
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Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons
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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 ...
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Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs
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Al Young
"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 ...
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Leaving Saturn: Poems
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Major Jackson, Al Young (Foreword by)
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 ...
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Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats
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Bob Young, Deborah Feingold (Photographer), Al Stankus
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 ...
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Present Tense-Writing and Art by Young Women: Edited by the Calyx Young Women's Editorial Collective
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Micki Reaman (Editor), Calyx Young Women's Editorial Collective (Editor), Et Al Reaman (Editor)
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.
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Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills, and Frames
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Charles L Robinson (Photographer), Al Young (Text by)
A bri;llant behind the scenes portrait of the legendary figures at the early Monterey Jazz Festival
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Seduction by Light
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Al Young
A fantasy novel about a middle-aged black ex-film star turned char lady, with a bizarre imaginative life. Mamie is blessed with psychic powers and has to cope with the return of her dead husband's ghost. Previous books by this black American writer include "Sitting Pretty" and "Ask Me Now".
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Calligraphy: From Beginner to Expert
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Caroline Young, MPH, Chris Lyon (Illustrator), Jane Felstead (Designer)
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The Mormon media market
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Al R. Young, Roger Reynolds, Kenneth A. Haubrock
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Snakes
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Things Ain't What They Used to Be: Musical Memoirs
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Bodies and Soul: Musical Memoirs
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Dancing; poems.
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The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems
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Heaven: Collected Poems, 1956-1990
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Al Young, O O Gabugah (Designer)
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Kinds of Blue: Musical Memoirs
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The song turning back into itself; poems. -
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Quilt 1
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Ishmael Reed (Editor), Al Young (Editor)
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Conjugal Visits: And Other Poems in Poetry and Prose
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The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000
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Al Young
Like poets across the ages, Young is grounded and experienced in the pride and prejudice of his own times, and yet he can jump right over the moon and straight at the sun. Whether sonnetizing love or loss, laughing at smug social presumptions, condemning CIA drug deals, the thriving prison industry, biotech food, greed in a darkening stockocracy, ...
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