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      "Poems that take the reader traveling"--

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      The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major

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      In the first volume to collect the paintings and drawings of Clarence Major, readers are offered six decades of unique, colourful, and compelling canvases and works on paper-works of singular…

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      Conversations with Clarence Major

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      For over forty years, Clarence Major has engaged several artistic and literary pursuits, garnering acclaim for his paintings, edited anthologies, poetry collections, essays, and novels. In this collection he comments…

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      Emergency Exit

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      People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times

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      The Lurking Place: A Novel

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      An engaging new novel by African-American literary icon Clarence Major reveals personal and political parallels between the past and present.

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      Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism

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      This first collected essays of a National Book Award finalist for Poetry is a portrait of the artist’s rise to prominence in American letters.

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      Myself Painting: Poems

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      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…

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      My Studio: Poems

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      Beginning and ending in Clarence Major’s atelier, My Studio demonstrates how art can influence our perception of the world, prompting all the parts [to] coalesce into a cohesive whole. With…

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      Down and Up: Poems

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      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…

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      From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015

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      Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. This retrospective of poems from the 1950s to the present - including selections…

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      Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar

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      This 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…

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      Myself Painting: Poems

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      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…

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      Come by Here

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      African-American writer Clarence Major explores the boundaries of identity, race, and colour in this autobiography of his mother, who passed as white without erasing her past as an African-American woman.

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      Surfaces and Masks

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      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.

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      Chicago Heat and Other Stories

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      Twenty-three stories exploring human interaction.

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      Configurations: New & Selected Poems, 1958-1998

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      This bluesy, meticulously envisioned collection establishes Major as an important voice in American poetry.

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      Waiting for Sweet Betty

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      The follow-up to Clarence Major’s National Book Award finalist volume, Configurations.

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      Sporadic Troubleshooting: Poems

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      Deeply felt and brimming with humour and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the latest volume from Clarence Major, both acknowledges poetic literary tradition and explores exciting new territories in language.

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      Thunderclouds in the Forecast: A Novel

      Clarence Major

      A preeminent American writer who thrives on reinvention, Clarence Major returns with an unforgettable exploration of life on the brink of sweeping change. With spare prose and subtle poignancy, Thunderclouds…

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      The Glint of Light

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      Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother's painful death as he goes through the stages of grief…

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      Golden Gate

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      All new work by the justly celebrated Clarence Major, an important American voice working in novels, poerty and the short story, whose Dirty Bird Blues was issued as a Penguin…

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      Swallow the Lake

      Clarence Major

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      The Art and Life of Clarence Major

      Keith E. Byerman

      In the first critical biography of Clarence Major, Byerman traces his life and career from his complex family history in Georgia through his encounters with important literary and artistic figures…

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      The Art and Life of Clarence Major

      Keith E. Byerman

      Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet - as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the…

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      The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry

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      Clarence Major is one of America’s literary masters. Whether you’ve known Major’s work for decades or are new to his singular style, The Essential Clarence Major offers a thrilling overview…

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      Dirty Bird Blues

      Clarence Major

      First published in the United States of America by Mercury House 1996.

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      My Amputations: A Novel

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      Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.

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      The Vain Conversation

      Anthony Grooms, Clarence Major, T. Geronimo Johnson

      Witness to a lynching in 1946, Lonnie is compelled to understand the brutal event and investigate his own culpability. Set in Georgia and drawn from real events, Anthony Grooms imagines…

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      I Am Osage

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      "A biographical picture book about Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation, who endured abuse growing up at the hands of a boarding school and went on to serve…

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      Osage General: Major General Clarence L. Tinker

      James L. Crowder,Office of History,Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center

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      Major-General Israel Putnam: A correspondence, on this subject

      Henry Barton Dawson,Abner Clarence Griswold

      Major-General Israel Putnam - A correspondence, on this subject is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas…

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      Hadley: The Regicides, Indian and General History, a Souvenir in Honor of Major-General Joseph Hooker

      This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

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      The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium in Reappraisal

      The Major English Romantic Poets: A Symposium In Reappraisal is a book edited by Clarence Dewitt Thorpe that explores the works of the major English Romantic poets. The book features…

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      Major-General Israel Putnam. a Correspondence, on This Subject, with the Editor of The Hartford Daily Post,

      Henry B Dawson,Abner Clarence Griswold

      This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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      Why I Like This Story

      Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or…

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