000224559 000__ 03471cam\a2200313Ia\45e0 000224559 001__ 224559 000224559 005__ 20210513090937.0 000224559 008__ 000223s2000\\\\nyu\\\\\\bk\\\001\0\eng\d 000224559 020__ $$a0688168760 (pbk.) 000224559 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm43506025 000224559 035__ $$a224559 000224559 040__ $$aFTL$$cFTL$$dBKL$$dNMP$$dVHB$$dOCJ 000224559 049__ $$aISEA 000224559 090__ $$aPS508.N3$$bG53 2000 000224559 092__ $$a810.8$$bGi 000224559 24500 $$aGiant steps :$$bthe new generation of African American writers /$$cedited and with an introduction by Kevin Young. 000224559 24630 $$aNew generation of African American writers. 000224559 250__ $$a1st ed. 000224559 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPerennial,$$cc2000. 000224559 300__ $$axiii, 364 p. ;$$c24 cm. 000224559 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[345]-351) and index. 000224559 504__ $$aDiscography: p. [353]-357. 000224559 5050_ $$aKevin Young: The black psychic hotline, or the future of African American writing -- Elizabeth Alexander: What I'm telling you ; Nineteen ; Frank Willis ; Stella by starlight ; Deadwood Dick ; Overture: Watermelon City ; Race ; Blues ; Feminist poem number one -- Hilton Als : from The women -- Anthony Butts: A Poe story ; Becoming the ghost ; Self-portrait with Clark Street Cadillac -- Detroit, one a.m. ; Machines ; The loudest sound -- Edwidge Danticat: The book of the dead -- Thomas Sayers Ellis: View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School ; Fatal April ; Being there ; Hush yo mouf ; Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ; Atomic bride -- Carolyn Ferrell: Can you say my name? -- Ruth Forman: Haiku I ; The Williams side of the family ; Blue poem III ; Show me the ankles of justice ; Cancer ; Momma died when my wisdom teeth come in -- Even If I was Cleopatra Jones -- Terrance Hayes: Shafro ; I want to be fat ; Neckbones ; Candied yams ; What I am ; Goliath poem ; When the neighbors fight ; Some luminous distress ; Summer -- Allison Joseph: Salt ; Learning the blues ; Family life ; Home girl talks girlhood ; On being told I don't speak like a Black person -- John Keene: Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949 ; Cecil's consolation (1942) ; One revolution ; Winter elegy ; Why I love my father. 000224559 5050_ $$aRandall Kenan: Now why come that is? -- Harryette Mullen: She landed on the moon ; Roadmap ; from Muse & Drudge ; Susuki method ; Black Nikes -- Kevin Powell: Letter to my father -- Claudia Rankine: American light ; Him ; Overview is a place ; The quotidian ; This life -- Darieck Scott: 1979 -- Danzy Senna: The land of Beulah -- Reginald Shepherd: The difficult music ; Desire and the slave trade ; Antibody ; S'il meurt ; Icarus on Fire Island ; At the grave of Hart Crane ; Skin trade -- Natasha Tarpley: from Girl in the mirror -- Natasha Trethewey: At the station ; Speculation, 1939 ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Flounder ; Saturday matinee ; Bellocq's Ophelia -- Rebecca Walker: Higher yellow -- Anthony Walton: from Mississippi -- Philippe Wamba: Of prophets and madmen -- Colson Whitehead: The all-night bodega of souls -- Daniel Jerome Wideman: Singing sankofa -- Joe Wood: The yellow Negro -- Kevin Young: Nineteen seventy-five ; No offense ; Negative ; Charlie Chan on horn ; Langston Hughes ; Homage to Phillis Wheatley. 000224559 5200_ $$aGiant steps presents a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collection of young black writing. 000224559 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors. 000224559 650_0 $$aAfrican Americans$$vLiterary collections. 000224559 7001_ $$aYoung, Kevin,$$d1970- 000224559 85200 $$bgen$$hPS508.N3$$iG53$$i2000 000224559 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:224559$$pGLOBAL_SET 000224559 980__ $$aBIB 000224559 980__ $$aBOOK 000224559 994__ $$aE0$$bISE