Absolution / Ai -- My singular Irene / José Alcántara Almánzar -- Willie Bea and Jaybird / Tina McElroy Ansa -- The organizer's wife / Toni Cade Bambara -- Words / Amiri Baraka -- Miss Askew on ice / Hal Bennett -- I used to like the Dallas Cowboys / Dionne Brand -- The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler -- Civilization / Oswaldo De Camargo -- They called her Aurora (the love of Donna Summer) / Aída Cartagena Portalatín -- Cherry bomb / Maxine Clair -- Griff / Austin C. Clarke -- Columba / Michelle Cliff -- The visit / Merle Collins -- Night thoughts / Christine Craig -- Avenues / Luiz Silva "Cuti" -- Tapestry / Samuel R. Delaney -- Rosena on the mountain / René Depestre -- Under the rose / Rita Dove -- Sweat, sugar, and blood / Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- A letter / Quince Duncan -- The miracle / Nelson Estupiñán Bass -- Randall Randall / Percival Everett -- This man and me / Guy-Mark Foster -- Three men / Ernest J. Gaines -- Accidents / Thomas Glave -- By love possessed / Lorna Goodison -- She wakes / Claire Harris -- Kanaima / Wilson Harris -- Presence / John Holman -- Circle of shade / Kelvin Christopher James -- Alēthia / Charles Johnson -- The first day / Edward P. Jones -- The fisherman's house / Gayl Jones -- Transits / John R. Keene -- My next-to-last hit / William Melvin Kelley -- The origin of whales / Randall Kenan -- Song of Roland / Jamaica Kincaid -- The blue room / Yanick Lahens -- Marriage bones / Helen Elaine Lee -- Shoemaker Arnold / Earl Lovelace -- City flesh and country manners / Clarence Major -- Some get wasted / Paule Marshall -- Specimen / John McCluskey Jr. -- The more I like flies / Reginald McKnight -- Quilting on the rebound / Terry McMillan -- Black pieces / Mark McMorris -- The story of a scar / James Alan McPherson -- I do not take messages from dead people / Pauline Melville -- A happy story / Opal Moore -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- A play / Bruce Morrow -- Voodoo / Walter Mosley -- Bewitched / Adalberto Ortiz -- The devil's maw / Stanley Péan -- Juby's morning / Richard Perry -- Stop frame / M. Nourbese Philip -- Yawetir / Alix Renaud -- Enough rides / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- Keep a secret / Esmeralda Ribeiro -- The inheritance of my father : a story for listening / Astrid Roemer -- The little white girl / Elio Ruiz -- This city of men / Darieck Scott -- You think I mad, Miss? / Olive Senior -- Her head a village / Makeda Silvera -- Sonatina for two drums / Carlos Arturo Truque -- Kembé / Ana Lydia Vega -- Nineteen fifty-five / Alice Walker -- Fever / John Edgar Wideman.
Summary:
Seventy stories by Black writers from around the world, half from the U.S. In William Melvin Kelley's My Next-to-Last Hit, a Harvard-educated killer engages in a philosophical discussion with his victim before shooting him, Pauline Melville's I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People is on the fate of a radio reporter in Guyana who insults the vice-president, and Ernest J. Gaines' Three Men is on jail as a rite-of-passage for Blacks in becoming men.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.