We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans

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Title

We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans

This edition

"We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans" . Ed. Sonia Sanchez. New York: Bantam, 1973. x+284 pp.

Table of contents

Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird / Toni Cade Bambara -- God and Machine / Imamu Amiri Baraka -- The Rise of Maud Martha / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Put Ya Feet on a Rock! / Tyki Brown -- Mother Wit Versus the Sleet Medallion Fleet / Wesley Brown -- DANDY or Astride the Funky Finger of Lust / Ed Bullins -- The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / John Henrik Clarke -- Sun and Flesh / Sebastian Clarke -- You've Come a Long Way, Baby / Liz Grant -- Sonny's Seasons / Sam Greenlee -- For once in my life (a short statement) / Verta Mae Grosvenor -- Boodie the Player / Nathan C. Heard -- A Few Fact Filled Fiction of African Reality / Ted Joans -- Sister Bibi / Kalamu (Val Ferdinand) -- Listen to the Wind Blow / Woodie King, Jr. -- Revelations 23:1-[infinity] (an excerpt) / John C17X McRae -- Brooklyn: a Semi-true Story / Samuel M. Murray -- Gums / Walter Myers -- Incident on a Bus / Dudley Randall -- After Saturday Night Comes Sunday / Sonia Sanchez -- Of Fathers and Sons / Askia Muhammad Toure -- Her Sweet Jerome / Alice Walker -- Legacy / Evan K. Walker -- The Gift of Mercilessness / Exavier X Lowtricia Wardlaw -- Rosa Lee Loves Bennie / Brenda Scott Wilkinson.

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Cited in


Kinnamon 1997: 472]

Item Number

A0193

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