Making Callaloo : 25 years of Black literature /

A collection of poetry and fiction by African-American authors who have been previously published in the literary journal "Callaloo."

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rowell, Charles H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Almanzar, Jose Alcantara: "My singular Irene"
  • Butler, Octavia E.: "The evening and the morning and the night"
  • Conde, Maryse: "The breadnut and the breadfruit"
  • Danticat, Edwidge: from The Journals of water days 1986
  • Delany, Samuel R.: from Shoat rumblin
  • Ellison, Ralph: "Cadillac flambe"
  • Everett, Percival: "Meiosis"
  • Forrest, Leon: "Sugar Groove"
  • Glave, Thomas: "Whose song?"
  • Harris, Wilson: from Jonestown
  • Johnson, Charles: from Rutherford's travels
  • Jones, Gayl: from The Machete woman
  • Kenan, Randall: "Now why come that is?"
  • Lee, Helen Elaine: "Silences"
  • Mackey, Nathaniel: "Atet A.D."
  • McCluskey, John, Jr.: from The River people
  • McMillan, Terry: "Ma'Dear"
  • Phillips, Caryl: from Cambridge
  • Wideman, John Edgar: "Ascent by balloon from the yard of Walnut Street Jail"
  • Ai: "Blue suede shoes"
  • Alexander, Elizabeth: "The Venus Hottentot"
  • Barrax, Gerald: "An audience of one" and "All my live ones"
  • Berrouet-Oriol, Robert: "Dissidence, I"
  • Brathwaite, Edward Kamau: from "Clips"
  • Cassells, Cyrus: "Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson"
  • Clifton, Lucille: "The times" and "Lazarus"
  • Derricotte, Toi: "The promise" and "Holy Cross Hospital"
  • Dixon, Melvin: "Heartbeats" and "Climbing Montmartre"
  • Dove, Rita: "Straw hat," "Motherhood," "Headdress," and "Heroes"
  • Edwards, Brent Hayes: "Middle ear recitation"
  • Ellis, Thomas Sayers: "Fatal April" and "A Kiss in the dark"
  • Etienne, Phebus: "A Ride to the wedding"
  • Hamer, Forrest: "Goldsboro narratives"
  • Harper, Michael S.: "Modulations on a theme for Josephus Long"
  • Harris, Claire: "Mysteries" and "Framed"
  • Hayes, Terrance: "Touch"
  • Jackson, Angela: "The love of travellers"
  • Jackson, Major L.: "Some kind of crazy"
  • Komunyakaa, Yusef: "Venus's-flytraps," "Red pagoda," "Birds on a powerline," and "Slam, dunk, & hook"
  • Lorde, Audre: "Fishing the white water" and "Jessehelms"
  • Major, Clarence: "Difficulty with perspective" and "Unwanted memory"
  • Mitchell, Karen: "Country after country" and "Forgiveness"
  • Morejon, Nancy: "Richard bought his flute"
  • Moss, Thylias: "One for all newborns" and "Holding"
  • Mullen, Harryette: "Fable" and "Unspoken"
  • Osbey, Brenda Marie: "Setting loose the icons"
  • Pereira, Edimilson de Almeida: "Calunga lungara"
  • Phillips Carl: "Moving target" and "The clearing"
  • Roberson, Ed: "Elegy for a white cock"
  • Roy, Lucinda H.: " Book review"
  • Sanchez, Sonia: "A poem for my father" and "Sequences"
  • Strange, Sharan: "Childhood" and "Offering"
  • Trethewey, Natasha: "Letter home" and "Vignette"
  • Walker, Alice: "On stripping bark from myself"
  • Welburn, Ron: "Yellow wolf spirit"
  • Wright, Jay: "Naming the Asturian bird" and "The economy of power"
  • Young, Kevin: "The escape artist" and "Cassius Clay by Basquiat."