Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition by Bruce Jackson
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition

Bruce Jackson

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: Narrative Poetry from Black Oral Tradition

Bruce Jackson

244 pages paperback 1974

3 editions

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Originally published in 1974, this work is considered one of the great collections of black literature and folk poetry known as "toasts"--probably the only living form of oral narrative poetry in the U.S. which represent a vital genre of black fol...

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