Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim Like Me: African-American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition by Bruce Jackson

Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim Like Me: African-American Narrative Poetry from the Oral Tradition

Bruce Jackson

243 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging dark reflective medium-paced
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Originally published in 1974, this work is considered one of the great collections of black literature and folk poetry known as "toasts"--probably the only living form of oral narrative poetry in the U.S. which represent a vital genre of black fol...

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