Nightmare Begins Responsibility

Literature & Fiction

Michael S. Harper

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

Poetry. African-American Studies. This is the first complete edition of Michael S. Harper's DEBRIDEMENT, bringing together the two sections previously published under separate titles: "Song: I Want a Witness" and "Debridement." As Anthony Walton notes in his introduction, "Michael S. Harper uncovers the real and sobering truths that lie behind the myths of his native land, repossesses, in the postcolonial sense, the past of 'his people,' not necessarily black, and steels himself to reenter the never-ending field of conflict between the contending forces of progressivism and reaction for ownership of the term 'patriot' in American society." "When there is no history/ there is no metaphor/ a blind nation in a storm/ mauls its own harbors;/ sperm whale, Indian, black,/ belted in these ruins" - Michael S. Harper.

Debridement

DOUBLEDAY

Dust jacket art by Gary Gore. His fourth book of poetry.

Song: I Want a Witness

University of Pittsburgh Press

<p>Essays discuss Ellison's major works, literary style, themes, influences, life, and career</p>

Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison

John Wright

Larry Neal

R.W.B. Lewis

Hollie West

James Alan McPHERSON

John M. Reilly

George E. Kent

Hortense Spillers

Howard University Press

I Do Believe in People: Remembrances of W. Warren Harper 1915-2004

Effendi Press

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