Volume 18, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Romare Bearden
The Sea Nymph
COLLAGE
Table of Contents
CHANT OF SAINTS: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature Art and Scholarship
Frontispiece: Montage, by Romare Bearden
Packwood’s Sermon by Firelight, Fiction by Leon Forrest
“If He Changed My Name”: an Interview with Leon Forrest, Non-Fiction by Maria Mootry
Names; Astronauts; Zinnias; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley; from The Snow Lamp, Poetry by Robert Hayden
In My Father’s House, Fiction by Ernest J. Gaines
Uplift From a Dark Tower and Other Poems, Poetry by Michael S. Harper
The Art of Romare Bearden, Non-Fiction by Ralph Ellison
Odysseus, collages by Romare Bearden; six illustrations and a portrait photograph of the artist by Niki Ekstrom, with a foreword by Calvin Tomkins
from Almeyda, Fiction by Gayl Jones
Gayle Jones: An Interview, by Michael S. Harper
Love’s Dozen, Poetry by Jay Wright
Covenant of Timelessness & Time: Robert Hayden’s Angle of Ascent, Non-Fiction by Wilburn Williams
Toward a World Black Literature Community, Non-Fiction by Melvin Dixon
Late Coltrane , Fiction by Kimberly W. Benston
An Image of Africa, Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe
from Schooner, Flight, Poetry by Derek Walcott
The Singer in the Song: Autobiography & Time in The Odyssey, Non-Fiction by Roger J. Porter
Ballad of the Moon, The Moon; The Unfaithful Wife, Poetry by Federico García Lorca, Translated by Meg Bogin
The Special Relationship: Britain Through American Eyes, Non-Fiction by A.S. Eisenstadt
Contributors
Chinua Achebe is the author of A Man of the People and Things Fall Apart.
Major collections of the work of Romare Bearden are at the Metropolitan and Whitney museums in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Author of Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask, Kimberly W. Benston is a graduate student at Yale.
Melvin Dixon teaches English and American studies at Williams.
Ralph Ellison is the author of Invisible Man, and Shadow and Act.
A former editor of Muhammed Speaks, Leon Forrest has written two novels, There Is a Tree More Ancient than Eden and The Bloodworth Orphans.
Novelist and story writer Ernest J. Gaines‘s books include Bloodline and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Robert Hayden is currently Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
Gayl Jones, author of two novels, Corregidora and Eva’s Man, teaches at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Maria K. Mootry is at Northwestern.
Calvin Tomkins is the author of a Nov. 28, 1977 New Yorker profile of Romare Bearden.
Derek Walcott is the distinguished poet and playwright from St. Lucia, West Indies; a collection of his best-known plays, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, is published by Noonday.
Wilburn Williams, Jr. teaches English and Afro-American studies at Wesleyan.
Jay Wright has published four books of verse and teaches at Yale.