Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing Book

	Acknowledgments
	About the Hurston/Wright Foundations
	Note
	Note
	The Dew Breaker	3
	From Erasure	13
	From RL's Dream	24
	From The Harris Men	35
	The Boy-Fish	43
	The Way I See It (From A Day Late and a Dollar Short)	56
	From Pride	77
	From What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day	88
	Mourning Glo	101
	From These Same Long Bones	115
	Your Child Can Be a Model!	138
	From Song of the Water Saints	148
	Miss Prissy and the Penitentiary	168
	Luminous Days	176
	From Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven	183
	Sonny-Boy (From Pictures of a Dying Man)	195
	From Water Marked	208
	From October Suite	229
	Like Trees, Walking	242
	Weight	256
	From Thieves' Paradise	267
	From P. G. County	279
	My Heavenly Father	291
	Lion's Blood	299
	The Knowing	305
	Luscious (From Loving Donovan)	315
	From Crawfish Dreams	325
	Press and Curl	333
	I Don't Know Nothin' 'Bout Birthin' No Babies (From The River Where Blood Is Born)	341
	Draggin' the Dog	351
	Museum Guide (From Black Girl in Paris)	359
	School (From Miss Black America)	381
	Ghost Story (From Slapboxing with Jesus)	389
	Clarity	401
	My Mama, Your Mama (From Imani All Mine)	412
	From Rails Under My Back	428
	From Dakota Grand	446
	The Dinner Party	455
	Meeting Frederick (From Douglass's Women)	458
	Eva and Isaiah (From Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do)	464
	From Discretion	472
	An Orange Line Train to Ballston	485
	Lucielia Louise Turner (From The Women of Brewster Place)	493
	Fortune	506
	$100 and Nothing!	512
	Are You Experienced?	517
	Group Solo	523
	Love	536
	From Breathing Room	544
	Love (From Drop)	554
	Antiquated Desires	566
	From Rest for the Weary	572
	From Church Folk	579
	From Commitment	595
	Black and Boo	616
	Rossonian Days	631
	Helter Skelter	644
	Here	658
	Summer Comes Later	662
	The Bulging Bag	669
	From Sap Rising	673
	Fire: An Origin Tale	680
	Tan Son Nhut Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, 1997 (From The Land South of the Clouds)	693
	Between Black and White	698
	Hincty (From The Chosen People)	708
	To Haiti or To Hell	714
	Mirror Image	725
	From What You Owe Me	737
	Will Not Be Televised	742
	Fear of Floating	760
	From The Queen of Harlem	773
	My Girl Mona	785
	About the Contributors	793
	Credits	805