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I. FINDING WORDS.
Walker, Alice - Everyday Use. Eidus, Janice - Robins's Nest. Silko, Leslie Marmon - Lullaby. Cofer, Judith Ortiz -Tales Told Under the Mango Tree. Lorde, Audre - Poetry is Not a Luxury. Norris, Kathleen - A Starfish in Mott. Marshall, Paule -From the Poets in the Kitchen. Medley, Cassandra - Waking Women. Silko, Leslie Marmon - untitled, Prologue to Ceremony. Cervantes, Lorna Dee - Refugee Ship. Chin, Marilyn - First Lessons. Cofer, Judith Ortiz - The Latin Deli. Harjo, Joy - For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak. Lorde, Audre - A Litany for Survival. Majaj, Lisa Suhair - Recognized Futures. Nye, Naomi Shihab - Adi os. Walker, Margaret - I Want to Write. Interview: Cofer, Judith Ortiz -The Art of Not Forgetting.
II. FAMILY ALBUM.
Glück, Tereze - Yellow Light. Hood, Mary - How Far She Went. Marshall, Paule - To Da-duh, In Memoriam. Walker, Pamela - Good Shabbos. Harjo, Joy - Family Album. Kingston, Maxine Hong - No Name Woman from Woman Warrior. Mora, Pat - A Walk with My Father. Sanchez, Sonya - Dear Mama. Wasserstein, Wendy - Tender Offer. Clifton, Lucille - Daughters. Dericotte, Toi - Touching, Not Touching: My Mother. Gallagher, Tess - Each Bird Walking. Hogan, Linda - Germinal, and Elk Song. Olds, Sharon - The Race, and Bathing the Newborn. Pratt, Minnie Bruce - Down the Little Cahaba. Ratner, Rochelle - Bentshen Light. Song, Cathy - Pic ture Bride. Voigt, Ellen Bryant - Visiting the Graves.Interview: Hogan, Linda - Imagining a Wider Community.
III. HISTORIES.
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth - A Visit from Reverend Tileston. Niederman, Sharon - A Gift for Languages. Olsen, Tillie - O Yes. Morrison, Toni - The birth of Denver, excerpt from Beloved. Ozick, Cynthia - The Shawl . Ling, Amy - Whose America Is It?. Rich, Adrienne - History Stops for No One. Tapahonso, Luci - Preface: The Kaw River Rushes Westward. Momoko Iko - Gold Watch. Clifton, Lucille - them and us. Clark, Patricia - Bill of Sale D. Derricote, Toi - A Note on My Son's Face. Dove, Rita - Crab Boil. Klepfitz, Irena - Warsaw, 1983: Umschlagplatz, and 1. Poland: My mother is walking down a road from Bashert. McElroy, Colleen J. - For My Children D. Mirikitani, Janice - Prisons of Silence. Mora, Pat - La Migra. Pastan, Linda - Family Tree. Rose, Wendy - I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen. Thomas, Joyce Carol - Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea. Tapahonso, Luci - Sháá Akó Dahjiníteh: Remember the Things They Told Us.Interview: McElroy, Colleen J. - Against a Bondage of Color.
IV. TRANSFORMATIONS.
Paley, Grace - A Conversation With My Father. Stephens, Mariflo - Waltzing into Heaven. Winslow, Joyce Madelon - Born Again. Joy, Eileen - Emma. Wolf, Naomi - Hunger. Dinnerstein, Barbara Noreen - Bubbie, Mommy, Weight Watchers and Me. Raz, Hilda - Junk. Watanabe, Sylvia - Where People Know Me. Drexler, Rosalyn - 17C. Allen, Paula Gunn - Weed. Clark, Patricia - Betrayal. Byer, Kathryn Stripling - Dusk. Gallagher, Tess - Red Poppy. Gluck, Louise - The Undertaking. Harjo, Joy - For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Whose Spirit is Here and in the Dappled Stars. Hogan, Linda - Geodes. Keener, LuAnn - Hummingbirds. Levertov, Denise - A Tree Telling of Orpheus. Moss, Thylias - Tornados. Range, Melissa - Lot's Wife. Interview: Watanabe, Sylvia - Living Among Strangers.
V. WORKING LIFE.
Kincaid, Jamaica - Poor Visitor. Naylor, Gloria - from Mama Day. Olsen, Tillie - I Stand Here Ironing. Dillard, Annie - from The Writing Life Goldberg, Nathalie - Walking Between the Raindrops. Kumin, Maxine -Menial Labor and the Muse Childress, Alice - Florence. Braid, Kate - 'Girl' on the Crew. Blaumer, Laurie - The Invention of Imagination. Byer, Kathryn Stripling - Carpenter. Crooker, Barbara - The Last Woman in America to Wash Diapers. Hogan, Linda - What Has Happened to These Working Hands?. McCue, Frances - The Stenographer's Breakfast. Shomer, Enid - The Tomato Packing Plant Line. Skeen, Anita - The English Teacher, in Mid- Life. Yamanaka, Interview: Lois-Ann - Turtles. Olsen, Tillie - Working Lives.
VI. MANY LOVES.
Cooper, J. California - The Magic Strength of Need. Houston, Pam - How to Talk to a Hunter. McDonald, Jeanne - Cousins. Springer, Lisa - Between Girls. Ferris, Lucy - Love and Learn. Lamott, Anne - from Operating Instructions. Willard, Nancy - The Friendship Tarot. Neipris, Janet - The Agreement. Allen, Paula Gunn - Eve the Fox. Angelou, Maya - Known to Eve and Me. Broumas, Olga - Lullaby. Gallagher, Tess - Sea Inside the Sea. Greenberg, Barbara L. - When I Think of My Happy Ending. Hacker, Marilyn - Self. Olds, Sharon - First Night. Peacock, Molly - How I Come to You. Rich, Adrienne - XIX from Twenty-One Love Poems Jordan, June - Poem Toward the Bottom Line. Song, Cathy - The White Porch. Willard, Nancy - Angels in Winter. Interview: Willard - Finding and Gathering and Dreaming.
VII. SPIRIT AND SONG.
Thomas, Joyce Carol - Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses. Watanabe, Sylvia - Talking with the Dead. Marcus, Adrianne - The Paincaller. Lyon, George Ella - Singing. Sarton, May - Silence is the food I was after... excerpt from Plant Dreaming Deep. Timpanelli, Gioia - There Are Times . Allen, Paula Gunn - A New Wrinkle from Grandmothersof the Light. Shange, Ntozake - Boogie Woogie Blues. Glück, Louise - Lullaby . Harjo, Joy - Healing Animal. Hogan, Linda - Drum. Kallet, Marilyn - Passover. Oliver, Mary - Mockingbirds. Piercy, Marge - Wellfleet Sabbath. Voigt, Ellen - Song and Story. Thomas, Joyce Carol - Church Poem . Tapahonso, Luci - The Motion of Songs Rising. Zimmerman, Elaine - To Essie Parrish. Interview: Harjo, Joy - In Love and War and Music.
VIII. HAPPINESS.
Colwin, Laurie - Another Marvelous Thing. Gomez, Jewelle - Don't Explain. Houston, Pam - Blizzard and Blue Sky. Kincaid, Jamaica - Just Reading. Tapahonso, Luci - It Was a Special Treat. Cofer, Judith - More Room. Henley, Beth - Am I Blue? Friman, Alice - The Good News. Gallagher, Tess - Crepes Flambeau. Hampl, Patricia - The Moment. Inez, Colette - Good News! Nilda is Back. Levertov, Denise - O Taste and See. Nye, Naomi Shihab - So Much Happiness. Oliver, Mary - August. Ostriker, Alicia - Mother in Airport Parking Lot. Pastan, Linda -The Happiest Day. Sarton, May - The Work of Happiness. Thomas, Joyce Carol - Sisters. Walders, Davi - Reflections in Green Glass. Interview: Thomas, Joyce Carol - In a Long Line of Strong Women.
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Charles Rainey
reviewed Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers on July 13, 2012 Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers
Another 1-star review said "451 pages, no laughs. Not one."
Well, there were a few, but so very few, it makes me wonder at the book's title. "Humor?" What humor?
Signed out of our public library after reading "The Sellout," a book I admired a lot, written by the same Paul Beatty, I am unable to see what he was attempting to give us with "Hokum." It certainly wasn't to make us laugh.
He does succeed in making me think American blacks are filled with self-hatred, and obsessed with skin color far more than us whites. Verbal cleverness seems to be highly prized. (The abominable rap comes to mind.) Morals seem not to be, nor much respect for the law. Not my opinion, but what any objective reader would conclude reading this book.
Yes, I know: slavery, then Jim Crow.
Was it the length of time these awful conditions existed that's at the root of the problem? Because other people who came to America also had terrible suffering in their history -- arguably worse than slavery -- without becoming so broken. We look at that peculiar game, the dozens, where one's mothers are obscenely insulted (mothers!), and wonder why this "game" doesn't exist among any other group.
OK, I'm rambling, going nowhere, and it doesn't really matter if you're considering buying the book, so let's talk about that.
A few pages were enjoyable, a few were brilliant (a poem by John Rodriguez especially).
A few pages had the explicit descriptions of sex (Steve Cannon) that I used to hope to find as a teenager over 50 years ago, but that weren't at all funny and were included in this book for reasons that escape me.
A number of pages were included only, it seems, for their historical quality, not their humor. Al Sharpton and H. Rap Brown were political, not funny, and both individuals reprehensible in my eyes. Why give us the crudity, the stupidity of Brown but not the brilliance of Eldridge Cleaver, both in the same period of American history?
Kyle Baker's cartoons were mostly about white characters. Was Baker included just because he is part black? Which is a ridiculous reason, of course, but then, why? Beatty is clearly no fool; what is he trying to tell us by including Baker?
I think of the brilliant monologues Richard Pryor did on network TV in the 1970s. They made us feel the pain of thrown-away members of society, and yet they were also funny. In this book we get the pain, not the laughter. Pryor showed us how to have both.
This book is subtitled "An Anthology of African-American Humor." If this is humor, pass me the poison. Almost none of this book is funny. Could that be Beatty's point? That the black experience in America is so tragic that very little humor can be found in it?
But that can't be. Not when we have Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock and countless others.
Again, I'm respectful of the editor's writing skills. I simply have no idea why he thought so much of this book was humorous.
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