A checklist of books by Clarence Major - Clarence Major Issue - Bibliography

African American Review, Spring, 1994 by Clarence Major, Joe Weixlmann

The checklist that follows lists the editions of Major's published book-length works. A more detailed listing of Major's writing appears in Joe Weixlmann and Clarence Major's "Toward a Primary Bibliography of Clarence Major," Black American Literatire Forum 13 (1979):70-72.

[Poetry Collections)

The Fires That Burn in Heaven. Chicago: n.p, 1954. 10 pp. Love Poem of a Black Man. Omaha. Coercion P, 1965.9 pp. Human juices. Omaha. Coercion P, 1966.20 pp. Swallow the Lake. Middleton: Weskleyan UP, 1970.64 pp. [hardcover

and paperback] Symptoms & Madness: Poems. New York: Corinth, 1971. 78 pp. [trade

hardcover: signed, limited edition hardcover, and paperback] Private Line. London: Paid Breman, 1971. 24 pp. The Cotton Club. New Poems. Detroit. Broadside, 1972.23 pp. The Syncopated Cakewalk. New York: Barlenmir House, 1974. vi 53

pp. [trade hardcover and signed, limited edition hardcover] Inside Diameter" The France Poems. London and New York. Permanent,

1985.38 pp. [paperback and sign limited edition] Surfaces and Masks: A Poem. Minneapolis: Coffee House, 1988. ii 91

pp. Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni in the latter Part of the Century.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1989.79 pp. Parking Lots: A Poem. Mount Horeb: Perishable, 1992.30 pp.

[Novels]

All-night Visitors. New York.- Olympia, 1969. iv, 203 pp. NO. New York Emerson Hall 1973. vi 207 pp. Reflex and Bone Structure. New York- Fiction Collective, 1975. vii 147

pp. [hardcover and paperback] Emergency Exit. New York.- Fiction Collective, 1979. x, 258 pp.

[hardcover and paperback] My Amputations. New York- Fiction Collective, 1986. vii 205 pp.

[hardcover and paperback] Such Was Or Season. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. vi, 213 pp. Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1988.

159 pp.

[Fiction Collection]

Fun & Games: Short Fictions. Duluth: Holy Cow!, 1990. vi 131 pp.

[Non-Fiction]

Dictionary of Afro-American Slang. New York!: International 1970.127 pp. [hardcover and paperback] Reissued as Black Slang: A Dictionary of Afro-American Talk. London: Routledge, 1971.127 pp. [hardcover and paperback]

The Dark and Feeling: Black American Writers and Their Work. New York: Third P, 1974.153 pp.

Juba to Jive A Dictionary of African-American Slang. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994. xxxviii 548 pp. [hardcover and paperback)

[Edited Collections)

Writes Workshop Anthology. E.D.with an intro. by Major. New York: Harlem Education Project/New Lincoln School, 1967.48 pp.

Man is a Child Ed. with an intro. by Major. New York. Macomb's Junior High School 1968.21 pp.

The New Black Poetry. Ed. with an intro. by Malor. New York. lnternational 1969.156 pp. [hardcover and paperback]

Calling the Wind: Twentieth-century African-American Short Stories. Ed. with an intro by Major New York HarperCollins, 1993. xxx, 622 pp. [hardcover and paperback]