Collage. Damballah : good serpent of the sky -- A begat chart -- Damballah -- Daddy garbage -- Lizabeth : the caterpillar story -- Across the wide Missouri -- Tommy -- Solitary -- Doc's story -- Surfiction -- Fever -- All stories are true -- Backseat -- What he saw -- Newborn thrown in trash and dies -- Welcome -- Weight -- The silence of Thelonius Monk -- Are dreams faster than the speed of light -- Who invented the jump shot -- What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence -- Witness -- To Barry Bonds : home run king -- War stories -- Close -- Party -- Automatic -- Writing -- Breath -- Message -- Manhole -- Martyr -- Ruins -- Cleaning up -- You are my sunshine -- New work -- Short story -- Swimming -- Answering service -- Ghetto -- Review -- Fall -- Now you see it -- First love suite -- Ralph Waldo Ellison -- Genocide -- Passing on -- Haiku -- Wolf whistle -- Shadow -- JB & FD -- My dead -- Maps and ledgers -- Williamsburg Bridge -- Nat Turner confesses -- Collage.
Summary:
Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form-illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
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