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Title:
The riot inside me : more trials & tremors / Wanda Coleman.
Author:
Coleman, Wanda.
Publication Information:
Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2005.
Call Number:
POETRY COLEMAN 2005
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004017234.html
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781574232004
Physical Description:
xvii, 261p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"A Black Sparrow Book."
Contents:
Introduction: My writing life & loves -- 1: Music & madnesses. A girl's diary (excerpts--summer 1961) ; Jabberwocky baby ; For Dad, on what would have been his 84th birthday ; My blues love affair ; Love-ins with Nietzsche ; Angela's big night ; Primal orb density -- 2: Tea leaves & jeremiads. Looking for it : an interview with Wanda Coleman--1991 ; Bobbi Sykes : an interview ; Remembering Latasha : get out of Dodge! Blacks, immigrants & America ; Uncommon courtesy ; 3: The Maya situation. Flung into controversy--indeed ; Coulda shoulda woulda : "A song flung up to heaven," by Maya Angelou ; Black on Black : fear & reviewing in Los Angeles ; Boos & reviews : the Angelou-EsoWon contretemps ; Hunt & peck : book reviewing, African American style ; What saves us : an interview with Wanda Coleman--2002 ; Heavy duty postscript -- 4: My future is in my past. Dancer on a blade : deep talk, revisions & reconsiderations ; I was a stand-in diva for June Jordan ; Letters to E. Ethelbert Miller ; 5 years after : discontent festers in South Central & we are all O.J. ; Wearing my maturity : Malcolm Boyd's Q&A on aging ; 9/11 blues ; The riot inside me : a statistic speaks.
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