The Art and Life of Clarence Major

Bibliography

Bibliography primary sources Archives Clarence Major Archives. Archie Givens Sr. Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Library Fiction Collective 2 Archive. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Ronald Sukenick Papers. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Russell Banks Papers. Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin Publications by Clarence Major (Chronological) All citations are to the first edition of the publication listed in the bibliography. Novels All-Night Visitors. New York: Olympia Press, 1969. Reprint Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. As I Visitatori della Notta, trans. Antonio Tronti, Milan: Olympia Press Milano, 1969. As Damonen, trans. O. P. Wilck, Frankfurt: Olympia Press Sonderreiche am Main, 1970. NO. New York: Emerson Hall, 1973 Reflex and Bone Structure. New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. Reprint San Francisco: Mercury House, 1996. As Reflexe et Ossature, trans. Maurice Couturier, Lausanne: Cistre, Lettres Differentes; Éditions L’ Age D’ Homme, 1982. Emergency Exit. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. My Amputations. New York: Fiction Collective, 1986. Such Was The Season. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. Reprint Voices of the South, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1988. 258 ] bibliography Dirty Bird Blues. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1996. Reprint New York: Berkley Signature Edition, 1997. One Flesh. New York: Kensington Books, 2003. Short Stories “Ulysses, Who Slept Across from Me.” Olivant 1 (1957): 53–56. Fun and Games. Duluth, Minn.: Holy Cow! Press, 1990. Poetry The Fires That Burn in Heaven. Chicago: n.p., 1954. The New Black Poetry. Editor. New York: International Publishers, 1969. Swallow the Lake. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. Private Line. London: Paul Breman, 1971. Symptoms and Madness. New York: Corinth Books, 1971. The Cotton Club. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. The Syncopated Cakewalk. New York: Barlenmir House, 1974. Inside Diameter: The France Poems. London: Permanent Press, 1985. Surfaces and Masks. Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press, 1988. Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the Latter Part of the Century. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1989. Parking Lots. Mount Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press, 1992. “The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage.” African American Review 28, no. 1 (1994): 11–22. Reprinted in Configurations, 300–319, and Bell, 13–26. Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958–1998. Washington, D.C.: Copper Canyon Press, 1999. Waiting for Sweet Betty. Washington:, D.C.: Copper Canyon Press, 2002. Myself Painting. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Nonfiction Editor. The Writers Workshop Anthology. New York: Harlem Education Program, n.d. Review of Flower, Fist and Bestial Wall by Charles Bukowski, Ceremonies in Mind by Tram Combs, Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Anagogic and Paideumic Review, no. 6 (1961): n.p. “How All-Night Visitors Was Made.” Nickel Review 3, no. 1 (April 1969): 11. Dictionary of Afro-American Slang. Editor. New York: International Publishers, 1970. As Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work. New York: Third Press, 1974. “Clarence Major Interviews Jacob Lawrence, the Expressionist.” Black Scholar 9, no. 3 (1979): 14–25. bibliography [ 259 “Licking Stamps, Taking Chances.” In Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series. 6:175–204. Detroit: Gale Research, 1988. “Reaching and Leaving the Point.” High Plains Literary Review 4, no. 2 (1989): 28–43. Editor. Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang. New York: Viking, 1994. Necessary Distance: Essays and Criticism. St. Paul, Minn.: Coffee House Press, 2000. Come by Here: My Mother’s Life. New York: John Wiley, 2002. Painting Exhibitions by Clarence Major (Chronological, list courtesy of Clarence Major) Solo Exhibitions Twenty Oil Paintings. Sarah Lawrence College Library, Bronxville, N.Y., Spring 1974. New Works on Paper. First National Bank Gallery, Boulder, Colo., 3–17 January 1986. Double Consciousness: The Paintings of Clarence Major. Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Mich., 4 September–28 October 2001. Figures in Full. 35 paintings on a five-at-a-time rotating display for a year, previewport.com, 2002. It’s Raining Art. Schacknow Museum of Fine Art, Plantation, Fla., April–May 2003. A Festival of Figures. Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, Calif., April 2003. Impressions of Yolo County. Main Street Gallery, Winters, Calif., 5–31 August 2004. Golden Valley Financial, Sacramento, Calif., February–March 2006. Hamilton Club Gallery, Paterson, N.J., October–November 2006. Morning Light, Looking toward Winters #1, and Interior #2. Permanent Contemporary Art Collection, Hamilton Club Gallery, Paterson...