Giant steps
Subtitle: the new generation of African American writers
By: edited by Kevin Young
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors; African Americans -- Literary collections
Other titles: New generation of African American writers
Description: Giant steps presents a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collection of young black writing
Notes: Discography: p. [353]-357

Includes bibliographical references and index by genre.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[345]-351)
Table of contents: title: Kevin Young: The black psychic hotline, or the future of African American writing; title: Elizabeth Alexander: What I'm telling you ; Nineteen ; Frank Willis ; Stella by starlight ; Deadwood Dick ; Overture: Watermelon City ; Race ; Blues ; Feminist poem number one; title: Hilton Als : from The women; title: Anthony Butts: A Poe story ; Becoming the ghost ; Self-portrait with Clark Street Cadillac; title: Detroit, one a.m. ; Machines ; The loudest sound; title: Edwidge Danticat: The book of the dead; title: Thomas Sayers Ellis: View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School ; Fatal April ; Being there ; Hush yo mouf ; Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein ; Atomic bride; title: Carolyn Ferrell: Can you say my name?; title: Ruth Forman: Haiku I ; The Williams side of the family ; Blue poem III ; Show me the ankles of justice ; Cancer ; Momma died when my wisdom teeth come in; title: Even If I was Cleopatra Jones; title: Terrance Hayes: Shafro ; I want to be fat ; Neckbones ; Candied yams ; What I am ; Goliath poem ; When the neighbors fight ; Some luminous distress ; Summer; title: Allison Joseph: Salt ; Learning the blues ; Family life ; Home girl talks girlhood ; On being told I don't speak like a Black person; title: John Keene: Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949 ; Cecil's consolation (1942) ; One revolution ; Winter elegy ; Why I love my father; title: Randall Kenan: Now why come that is?; title: Harryette Mullen: She landed on the moon ; Roadmap ; from Muse & Drudge ; Susuki method ; Black Nikes; title: Kevin Powell: Letter to my father; title: Claudia Rankine: American light ; Him ; Overview is a place ; The quotidian ; This life; title: Darieck Scott: 1979; title: Danzy Senna: The land of Beulah; title: Reginald Shepherd: The difficult music ; Desire and the slave trade ; Antibody ; S'il meurt ; Icarus on Fire Island ; At the grave of Hart Crane ; Skin trade; title: Natasha Tarpley: from Girl in the mirror; title: Natasha Trethewey: At the station ; Speculation, 1939 ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Flounder ; Saturday matinee ; Bellocq's Ophelia; title: Rebecca Walker: Higher yellow; title: Anthony Walton: from Mississippi; title: Philippe Wamba: Of prophets and madmen; title: Colson Whitehead: The all-night bodega of souls; title: Daniel Jerome Wideman: Singing sankofa; title: Joe Wood: The yellow Negro; title: Kevin Young: Nineteen seventy-five ; No offense ; Negative ; Charlie Chan on horn ; Langston Hughes ; Homage to Phillis Wheatley