Title: Native in a strange land : trials & tremors /
Authors: Coleman, Wanda; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Essays
Abstract: In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory."
Contents: Introduction: A Career in Brief -- L.A. Love Cry -- Napoleon Ice Cream Fog -- Off the Same Boat -- Native in a Strange Land -- Central Avenue -- Voices from the Curfew Zone -- Dear Mama: Words Having Failed -- Saturday's Child -- Paying for Santa -- Starvation Stew -- A Militant Look Backwards -- Interview with Nikki Giovanni -- Devaluation Blues -- Reflections on a Riot -- 1985 -- No Way Up -- Sweet Susannah, Strange Susannah -- Revisiting Welfare -- California Running -- Parlor Politics -- Remembering Lee -- Jazz Blues -- Laughs for Sale -- Starcrossed Encounters -- Say It Ain't Cool, Joe -- Trouble in Paradise -- School for Thugstas -- Under the Weather -- Beneath the Milky Way -- Astrology to Go -- Afro-American like Me -- On Hold for Dear Life -- The Evil Eye -- Polia Stories -- Thrown for a Loop -- Guys, Dolls & Bit Players -- Gatherings -- Slow Rap for Brandon -- Library Time -- Violence, Art & Hustle -- The Healing Walls -- City in Denial: L.A. Diary, 1993 -- Apartheid Local -- Saving Our Youth -- Letter to Jamal -- Angels with Rap Sheets -- Days of Lang Syne -- Classified Scam -- Sistuhs in Arms -- Committed to Memory -- Catalina Reverie -- The Saga of Darren Stroh -- Jah in Packaging -- An Interview with Bob Marley -- Imagining Disaster -- Day of the Bargains Mall -- The Ultimate L.A. Litmus Test -- Of Fatness and Fitness -- Jungle of City -- Death off Barham -- When Jury Duty Calls -- Night of the Living Verdict -- After the Fallout -- Where the Heart Is -- Sorry, Wrong Wanda -- Rides of Spring -- The Short Goodbye -- Future Perfect -- Nails Nails Nails -- Exit Hollywood -- Late Night Callers -- Dollar and a Dime -- Sleepless in L.A. -- A Valentine.