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Chicago Heat and Other Stories

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Product Description: Having written more than eight novels, including My Amputations and Dirty Bird Blues, alongside a dozen books of poetry, Chicago Heat and Other Stories is Clarence Majorâs second work of short fiction and first book with Green Writers Press...read more

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9780996897327 | Green Writers Pr, September 6, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Having written more than eight novels, including My Amputations and Dirty Bird Blues, alongside a dozen books of poetry, Chicago Heat and Other Stories is Clarence Majorâs second work of short fiction and first book with Green Writers Press.

From Now on: New and Selected Poems 1970-2015

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Product Description: Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction...read more

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9780820347967, titled "From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015" | Univ of Georgia Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized.

Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearThis novel, narrated by Baldy, a Navajo/Hopi guitar player, tells the story of Zuni folk singer Painted Turtle, from her childhood experiences on the reservation to her performances in cantinas in the Southwest. First published in 1988 and long out of print, this work from Clarence Major follows Painted Turtle as she seeks to assuage the spiritual sicknesses that have shaped her uneasy relationships with family, friends, and her tribe.

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9781557130020 | Sun & Moon Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearThis novel, narrated by Baldy, a Navajo/Hopi guitar player, tells the story of Zuni folk singer Painted Turtle, from her childhood experiences on the reservation to her performances in cantinas in the Southwest.

9781557130037 | Signed edition (Sun & Moon Pr, January 1, 1987), cover price $30.00

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9780826356000 | Reissue edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 2015), cover price $19.95

9781557130853 | Sun & Moon Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $11.95

Down and Up: Poems

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Product Description: In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their character and voice, to construct poems that explore the physical world juxtaposed sharply with the inner world. Sometimes realistic, sometimes dreamlike, these poems are dynamic, universal in theme, and acknowledge a debt to the great tradition of modern American poetry...read more

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9780820345949 | Univ of Georgia Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their character and voice, to construct poems that explore the physical world juxtaposed sharply with the inner world.

Myself Painting: Poems

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Product Description: In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art with poems that speak not of painting itself, but of its underlying process. Major incorporates the techniques of paintingparticularly that of Post-Expressionisminto his verse, describing scenery with an artist's eye and using form and color to evokes striking images...read more

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9780807133668 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art with poems that speak not of painting itself, but of its underlying process.

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9780807133675 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2008, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art with poems that speak not of painting itself, but of its underlying process.

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Product Description: This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-con who has become convinced that he is an important American novelist or a desperate American novelist who has become convinced that he, and most of what passes for literary life on three continents, is a con...read more

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9780914590965 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Mason looks back at his past trying to determine whether he is an ex-con pretending to be a novelist or a troubled novelist convinced he is a fraud

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9781573661430 | Reprint edition (Fc2/Black Ice Books, July 30, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow.

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John Canoe, a gifted, yet reclusive, young painter, finds his life forever changed when he encounters a stunning Chinese American woman who chases away the loneliness that has plagued his existence. Original. 20,000 first printing.

By Clarence Major

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9780758204738 | Dafina, November 1, 2003, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: John Canoe, a gifted yet reclusive young painter, finds his life forever changed when he encounters a stunning Chinese American woman who chases away the loneliness that has plagued his existence.

Such Was the Season: A Novel

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Product Description: Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly matriarch of a large black family in Atlanta. Annie Eliza narrates the story of "a killer diller" week, with the homecoming of her nephew, Adam "Juneboy" North, a doctor at Yale who has been gone for more than twenty-five years...read more

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9780807128657 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Such Was the Season is the story of an eventful week in the life of an elderly matriarch of a large black family in Atlanta.

Come by Here: My Mother's Life

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Product Description: Lavish praise for come by here""With elegant simplicity and uncommon wisdom, Clarence Major gives us not just the truth of his mother's life but the unspoken truth behind the lie of color in the American story. A compelling narrative...read more

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9780471415183 | Turner Pub Co, April 1, 2002, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Told through his mother's voice, a man recalls his light-skinned mother's struggle for existence, passing for white to earn a respectable living after leaving an abusive marriage.

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9780471273349 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 15, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lavish praise for come by here""With elegant simplicity and uncommon wisdom, Clarence Major gives us not just the truth of his mother's life but the unspoken truth behind the lie of color in the American story.

Waiting for Sweet Betty

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Product Description: "I find myself writing poems about things I canât paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, has been viewed by critics as a "polymorphous writer who has been iconoclast, black esthetician, modernist, surrealist, postmodernist, and deconstructionist" (World Literature Today)...read more

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9781556591792 | Copper Canyon Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "I find myself writing poems about things I canât paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, has been viewed by critics as a "polymorphous writer who has been iconoclast, black esthetician, modernist, surrealist, postmodernist, and deconstructionist" (World Literature Today).

Conversations With Clarence Major

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Product Description: For over forty years, Clarence Major (b. 1936) has engaged several artistic and literary pursuits, garnering acclaim for his paintings, edited anthologies, poetry collections, essays, and novels. His work within literature ranges from his popular dictionary of slang, Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (1994), to such experimental novels as Emergency Exit (1979), Reflex and Bone Structure (1975), and My Amputations (1986)...read more

By Nancy Bunge (editor) and Clarence Major

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9781578064571 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: For over forty years, Clarence Major (b.

9780070399457, titled "United States" | Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School, June 1, 1983, cover price $28.52 | also contains Conversations With Clarence Major, United States | About this edition: historical.

Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism

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By Clarence Major

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9781566891097 | Coffee House Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

All Night Visitors

A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts to grow up in a hostile world

By Clarence Major

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9781555533670, titled "All-Night Visitors" | Subsequent edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, October 29, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts to grow up in a hostile world

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9781555534288, titled "All-Night Visitors" | Northeastern Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts to grow up in a hostile world

9780685324660 | Univ Place Book Shop, June 1, 1973, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: A first-person narrative restored to full text shares the story of Eli Bolton as he drops out of college and attempts to grow up in a hostile world.

Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998

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Product Description: Finalist for the National Book AwardDrawing his most outstanding work from nine previous volumes of award-winning poetry, Clarence Major had added a substantial body of new work to present a clear assessment of his forty-year career...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781556590900 | Copper Canyon Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Finalist for the National Book AwardDrawing his most outstanding work from nine previous volumes of award-winning poetry, Clarence Major had added a substantial body of new work to present a clear assessment of his forty-year career.

Dirty Bird Blues: A Novel

An African-American blues musician and blue-collar worker, Manfred Banks confronts the trials of family, friends, racism, and the lure of the bottle in early 1950s Chicago. Reprint. AB.

By Clarence Major

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9780425159033 | Berkley Pub Group, July 1, 1997, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A Black musician and blue-collar worker faces the trials of family, friends, racism, and the lure of the bottle in 1950s Chicago

Dirty Bird Blues

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A Black musician and blue-collar worker faces the trials of family, friends, racism, and the lure of the bottle in 1950s Chicago

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9781562790837 | Mercury House, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Black musician and blue-collar worker faces the trials of family, friends, racism, and the lure of the bottle in 1950s Chicago

Reflex and Bone Structure: A Novel

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Weaves a mystery in which imagination and fiction become tangled with reality

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9781562790844 | Mercury House, May 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Weaves a mystery in which imagination and fiction become tangled with reality

The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry

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A comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry presents a rich selection of works by one hundred poets who span the century, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker.

By Clarence Major (editor)

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9780060553647 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An anthology includes the works of James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka

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9780060951214 | Perennial, February 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: An anthology includes the works of James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka

Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang

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Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

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9780670852642 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

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9780140513066 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

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

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Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important Black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form

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9780060183370 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important Black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form

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9780060982010, titled "Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories" | Perennial, October 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important Black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form

Such Was the Season

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In a single week, Annie Eliza of Atlanta deals with a visit from her nephew Juneboy, the decision of her daughter-in-law Renee to run for state senate, an assassination attempt, and a suicide

By Clarence Major

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9780916515201 | Mercury House, September 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a single week, Annie Eliza of Atlanta deals with a visit from her nephew Juneboy, the decision of her daughter-in-law Renee to run for state senate, an assassination attempt, and a suicide

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9780916515683 | Reprint edition (Mercury House, April 1, 1990), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In a single week, Annie Eliza of Atlanta deals with a visit from her nephew Juneboy, the decision of her daughter-in-law Renee to run for state senate, an assassination attempt, and a suicide

Fun and Games: Short Fictions

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Product Description: novelist/poet's first collection of short stories

By Clarence Major

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9780930100346 | Holy Cow Pr, March 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: novelist/poet's first collection of short stories

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

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Product Description: poetry on author's mixed African/Zuni heritage

By Clarence Major

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9781557130204 | Sun & Moon Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: poetry on author's mixed African/Zuni heritage

Surfaces and Masks

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Product Description: A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering issues of racial and national identity. By the author of My Amputations.

By Clarence Major

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9780918273437 | Coffee House Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, considering issues of racial and national identity.

Inside Diameter: The France Poems

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Product Description: poetry by editor of (1969) 'The New Black Poetry'

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9780905258096 | Small Pr Distribution, September 1, 1985, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: poetry by editor of (1969) 'The New Black Poetry'

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