Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim Like Me
Subtitle: African-American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 18, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415969970
First sentence: Toasts can be told anywhere-at parties, lounging around bars and streetcorners, on a troopship crossing the boring ocean-but they seem to be told in county jails more than anywhere else.