Research Catalog

Title

Relocations of the spirit : essays / by Leon Forrest.

Author

Forrest, Leon

Publication

Wakefield, R.I. : Asphodel Press/Moyer Bell, c1994.

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Details

Description

397 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• In this collection's opening autobiographical essay entitled "In the Light of Likeness - Transformed," Leon Forrest tells us that he came from a lower-middle-class Negro household on the South Side of Chicago. My father was a bartender on the Santa Fe Railroad and Daddy would read to me and my mother when he was at home. My mother read to me constantly. My great-grandmother lived with us until I was ten, and I used to read the Bible to her, mainly the Old Testament."
• Leon Forrest's lifetime love of words shines forth in the essays, articles, and book reviews that comprise this volume. We share his fine-tuned, careful perceptions in essays on the moment of epiphany in the black Baptist church, on Michael Jordan, on Toni Morrison's novel, Sula, on William Faulkner, on Billie Holiday, on the sculptor Richard Hunt, among many others.
• Book reviews address James Baldwin's Just Above My Head, Joyce Carol Oates' Son of the Morning, Rita Mae Brown's Six on One, and The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges. In each, we learn something new, about literature, about life, about ourselves.
• . The pieces in Relocation of the Spirit traverse twenty years in American culture. Leon Forrest was there as witness - and we are wiser for his observations.

Subject

• Geschichte 1950-1990
• African Americans

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

At Home in the Windy City. In the Light of the Likeness -- Transformed. Souls in Motion. Character Behind the Walls of Residential Segregation. Elijah -- Luminosity. A Conversation with Ralph Ellison. Luminosity from the Lower Frequencies. Going to the Territory. Morrison's Magic Lantern. Brown's Body and Soul. Faulkner / Reforestation. The Transformation of Grief. The Mystery of Meaning. Forged in Injustice. Eulogy to Allison Davis. An Indictment of the Soviet System via Rabelaisian Satire. Graphic Gospel According to James Baldwin. Evidences of Jimmy Baldwin. Casting Light Upon a Writer's Work. Borges: Haunting Dreams, Golden Fantasies. Gardner's Final Will and Testament to Writers. Blacks Speak Out: A Disturbing and Revealing Message. Spiritual Flight of Female Fire -- Reinvention, Ecstasy, and Transformation. Michael's Mandate. Jackie Robinson: His Story, Our Story. Theatre of Agony and Celebration -- Talking to God. A Journey into the Forest of Roland Kirk-Country. A Solo Long-Song: For Lady Day.

ISBN

1559210680 :

LCCN

^^^92042600^

OCLC

27035044

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library