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Clarence Major Waiting for Sweet Betty (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Waiting for Sweet Betty
- Publication Name
- Waiting for Sweet Betty
- Title
- Waiting for Sweet Betty
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781556591792
- ISBN
- 9781556591792
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Release Date
- 14/11/2002
- Release Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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"I find myself writing poems about things I can't paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, has been viewed by critics as a "polymorphous writer who has been iconoclast, black esthetician, modernist, surrealist, postmodernist, and deconstructionist" (World Literature Today). In Waiting for Sweet Betty, Major watches the world with careful longing to capture the exchanges and conflicts between person and place. Just as a painter juxtaposes colors and shapes, Major does the same with words, often writing as an outsider in foreign places. He shifts perspective away from the self, allowing words to play off one another subtly-with puns, inverted/subverted cliches, and sweet bop soundings-so that his vision might become anyone's. His subtle, conversational style, is at once humble, playful, humorous, and studied, and his stories can be seen as well as heard: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing. Big pines and big skies ride up and down and around, Up and down and around then for a straight stretch. A white pickup shooting along a white highway east with us. Note I'm trying to call home but cannot. Sky and brush and pine and salt-earth curving sharply, tilting away -from "Train Window Going and Coming" "Clarence Major is a master of everyday language and textual fine-tuning, showing an indebtedness to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Objectivists, and to Black Mountaineers."-Publishers Weekly Clarence Major was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry for Configurations: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon). He is the author of 10 books of poetry, nine novels, a short story collection, and several books of nonfiction. He is the subject of two recent books: Clarence Major and His Art (UNC Press) and Conversations with Clarence Major (Mississippi). Major teaches American literature at the University of California at Davis.
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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN-10
1556591799
ISBN-13
9781556591792
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2343469
Product Key Features
Book Title
Waiting for Sweet Betty
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.A39w35 2002
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-013392
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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