num_pages: 244
description: Anthologizes over one hundred toasts, oral folk poems, with variants, collected from various sources, and examines their functions, themes, backgrounds, and methods of performance
language: English
title: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition
titlecomplete: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition
genres: Folklore, Anthologies, Poetry
ratings_count: 28
publisher: Harvard University Press