Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

1. ix, 138 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "Michael Harper writes out of the fire of the African American experience. The people and the places of his life become something that is uniquely his own - yet he transforms them into something irreplaceable and powerful and perfect for the reader as well."--on lower cover.

Series statement

1. Illinois poetry series

Uniform title

1. Illinois poetry series

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. American poetry > 20th century
3. American poetry

Genre/Form

1. poetry.
2. Poetry.
3. Poésie.

Contents

1. Ulysses S. Grant: His Prose -- It Is the Man/Woman Outside Who Judges -- The Line: How to Step Out of It -- Intentional Suffering -- Changing Names in the Streets -- Free Association: Some Practical Symbols -- Study Windows -- Late September Refrain -- Arthritis Dance -- To an Old Man Twiddlin' Thumbs -- Angola (Louisiana) -- Quilting Bee (Mecklenburg County) -- Homage to the Brown Bomber -- Journey through the Interior -- Odd Facts about the Painter (On Causality) -- Dear Romie: Rock Formation Epistles -- Impertinent Correspondence -- Portrait of James Weldon Johnson -- Archives -- Jest: A Collection of Records -- Josh Gibson's Bat -- Hinton's Silkscreens -- Conversations with Roy DeCarava -- The Beauty Shell -- Fixit -- Changes on Coleman "Bean" Hawkins's Birthday -- Dexter Leaps In -- Fanny's Kitchen -- "Dixie Peach" -- Saint Sassy Divine -- Teaching Institutes -- Laureate Notes -- Mule -- Manong: Angola -- Rhode Island (SSBNT740): A Toast -- The Sanctity of the Unwritten.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.