The Beacon Best of 1999
Subtitle: creative writing by women and men of all colors
By: Ntozake Shange, guest editor.
Contributors: Shange, Ntozake,
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Short stories; Poetry -- Collections; Essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-310).
Table of contents: title: Boy called risk -- Reginald Shepherd; title: 1967 -- Greg Bottoms; title: Water -- Nadine Kijner; title: Darkest purple -- Rafael Campo; title: Lemons -- Frank X. Gaspar; title: Gloomy Sunday -- Marcus Cafagña; title: Reluctant death -- Pat Mora; title: Lobo solo -- Jewel Morgan; title: For a daughter who leaves -- Janice Mirikitani; title: Intimacy -- Hanif Kureishi; title: Common water -- Steve Faulkner; title: Who's Irish? -- Gish Jen; title: Young girl's lament -- Ha Jin; title: Pink -- Marilene Phipps; title: What is a brother? -- John Edgar Wideman; title: Like that -- Kim Addonizio; title: Date -- Brenda Miller; title: Sun, the moon, the stars -- Junot Diaz; title: New Delhi romance -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; title: Venus of Willendorf -- Yusef Komunyakaa; title: Orphan of love -- Marjorie Sandor; title: Closer -- Susan Rosalsky; title: Waiting for Amelia -- Laura Wexler; title: Leadership -- Terese Svoboda; title: Driving -- Suzanne Kamata; title: Goodbye, Johnnie Walker -- Neil Davidson; title: Licking the woman -- Brandel France de Bravo; title: Drowned man's notes -- Brian Hocevar; title: Deer crossing the sea -- Larissa Szporluk; title: Wilderness north of the Merrimack -- Jane Brox; title: New flower -- Denise Levertov; title: Garden of envy -- Jamaica Kincaid; title: This is our world -- Dorothy Allison; title: Naked woman playing Chopin -- Louise Erdrich; title: At the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music & Culture Among Youth -- Reetika Vazirani; title: Volcanic songs -- Patrick Sylvain; title: Where the markets converge -- Marcie Hershman; title: How poems happen -- Barbara Kingsolver; title: How to kiss -- Danielle Legros Georges; title: Dance school -- Manfred Wolf; title: For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts where my cousin Esteban was forbidden to wait tables because he wears dreadlocks -- Martín Espada; title: Sad sweet story of Sugar Lips Shinehot and the portable promised land -- Touré; title: Some kind of crazy -- Major L. Jackson; title: Jack Johnson -- Kevin Young; title: Rosa-- Rita Dove.