Fractal Song

by Jerry Ward

Overview

Jerry Ward, Distinguished Honorary Professor (2015-2017) at Central China Normal University, is the author ofTHE KATRINA PAPERS: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery(2008) and co-editor of theCambridge History of African American Literature(2011). Ward spent 32 years as the Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College and 10 years as Professor of English at Dillard University. Recognized as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright, he is a founding member of the Richard Wright Circle and co-editedThe Richard Wright Encyclopedia(2008). He lives in New Orleans and has numerous publications both in the USA and in China

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997172522
Publisher:	Black Widow Press
Publication date:	01/07/2017
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jerry Ward, Distinguished Honorary Professor (2015-2017) at Central China Normal University, is the author of THE KATRINA PAPERS: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery (2008) and co-editor of the Cambridge History of African American Literature(2011). Ward spent 32 years as the Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College and 10 years as Professor of English at Dillard University. Recognized as one of the leading experts on Richard Wright, he is a founding member of the Richard Wright Circle and co-edited The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008). He lives in New Orleans and has numerous publications both in the USA and in China

Table of Contents

Starts Complete incompletes Imperatives conspire

Your Voice 15

Open 16

The Impossible All These Years 18

Black Boy 19

Trueblood 20

Mississippi John 21

Don't Be Fourteen 22

Moods in South Sharp 24

Son to Father 26

On the Border of Constant Disaster 28

Kafka 29

Jazz to Jackson to John 30

Middles Complete incompletes Imperatives conspire

Opening Night 37

Serious 39

Kwansaba 61907 41

Moment #I 42

A Modest Plea 43

An April Observation 44

A Peapicking Prayer 45

Transition 47

The Body Politic 48

Salvation 49

4 & 5 51

Love in a Foreign House 55

Poems of Guilt and Innocence 56

Fragility 57

Blood and Black Fires 58

Pregnant Memories 61

That Day the Rainbow Died 66

Ends Complete incompletes Imperatives conspire

Trayvon 71

He Has Wonderful Eyes 73

Poem 69 75

Winter Solitude 76

Reparations 78

Uncle Sam and Uncle Tom 80

Footnote 666 81

"Postscript" Kalamu ya Salaam 83

Fusion 89