Father songs
Subtitle: testimonies by African-American sons and daughters
By: edited by Gloria Wade-Gayles.
Contributors: Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Fathers -- Literary collections.; African American families -- Literary collections.; Fathers and daughters -- Literary collections.; American literature -- African American authors.; Fathers and sons -- Literary collections.; Father figures -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Loving, enraged, wounded, heroic. These are our fathers, our black fathers. In startlingly beautiful prose, poetry, and fiction some of our most gifted writers pay tribute to the complex relationship between sons, daughters, and the first and most important man in their lives.

Some search for their fathers in painful memories that haunt them from childhood through adolescence into their own parenthood; others celebrate their fathers' lives and the gifts their fathers gave them and their own children. Despite the enormous range of experiences, each writer affirms the central role this relationship has played in their lives.