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Clarence Major

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Gender Male
Born Atlanta
Georgia
United States
Edited worksJuba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang
Dictionary of Afro-American slang
The new Black poetry
Job Poet
Painter
Novelist
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID635341

My amputations
Reflex and Bone Structure
Such Was the Season
All-night visitors
Dirty bird blues
Necessary distance
Configurations
The new Black poetry
Come By Here: My Mother's Life
Chicago Heat and Other Stories
Dictionary of Afro-American slang
Swallow the lake
Waiting for sweet Betty
Symptoms & madness
The Paintings and Drawings of Clarence Major
Myself painting
Surfaces and masks
My Studio: Poems
From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2015
One Flesh
The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work
Conversations with Clarence Major
Inside Diameter: The France Poems
The syncopated cakewalk
Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century
Fun & Games: Short Fictions
Down and Up: Poems
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Réflexe et ossature
Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar : a Novel
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Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts," presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.

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