Home/Bass Poems

Name: Home/Bass Poems
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ISBN: 9780883783450

ISBN-10: 0883783452

ISBN-13: 9780883783450

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sterling D. Plumpp

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Home/Bassbrings to the forefront the myriad of folks that inhabit the up-South streets of Chicago or the unaltered roads of Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and other pockets inhabited by Blacks throughout the South. Sterling Plumpp has lived with these folks—sharecroppers, preachers, misplaced Mississippi blues men and women. He has been in their houses, has dined at their tables, and has drunk at the bars on the corners. He is not a stranger to their articulations—voices that call to him from a Natchez cemetery, from the outskirts of some Mississippi Delta town, or settle on Maxwell Street in Chicago—all through the observant and often omnipresent lens of blues artist Willie Kent. Plumpp…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Third World Press
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 225
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Prologue: Descendent



Maxwell Street



Narrator



When I Sing



From the Delta



I Paraphrase



My Name



Gathering Place



Neighborhood



Son



Why I Sing



West Side Story



I Can



On Credit



Tracks



I Pay



Yesterday



I Tote



Words



Task



Gigging



Mood/Moved



Borders



Wondering



Cultivation



Hard Times



Ramblings/Down Inside



Blues



Legacy



Home



Identity



Joy



I Cry



Riffs



History



Traveling



Rituals



Magnolia



History II



Amen



Sunset



Beginning