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{"title":"From Painted Turtle: Woman with Guitar","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Inkpen sent me to her to make her more commercial, to get her to switch to electric. I never liked the idea all the way, but I wasn’t sure it wouldn’t be good for her to rake in a little more money and to get off the grimy cantina circuit. I liked her music on the demos he played for me....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125303344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chicago Heat","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Hello? Mama? It’s me, Floyce. Me and Hank just got back from the courthouse. You won’t believe it. Something terrible has happened. They kept Harley. And it looks like my husband is dead. The police was just here and they took my husband out of here all covered up on a stretcher. They asked me and Hank all kinds of questions. And we have to go to the police station tomorrow morning because I got to sign some piece of paper. But, Mama, we didn’t even know Medwin was dead. After the trial we drove home like that with him sitting up in the front seat, kind of all slumped over but still sitting up. And I could’ve sworn he was just sleeping. And you know, sometimes I have trouble waking him up. He just won’t wake up. And I thought this was just another one of them times. ’Cause Medwin was messing up! You know, I told you before that Medwin had been abusing his medication lately, and it wasn’t the first time he had passed out and come back hours later. So, that’s why we thought he was passed out again. But he had to have died while we were in the courthouse. Can you imagine that? Sitting out there in that hot car all that time in this Chicago heat just ’cause he didn’t want to see Vernon. And August in Chicago, as you know, is hell. He wouldn’t even come in to Harley’s trial. But I guess he didn’t have any love to lose on Harley or Hank, for that matter, the way they treated that poor man. It was like Medwin and Hank had never been friends. And you remember it was Hank who introduced me to Medwin while they were in recovery in the VA hospital. When was that? Already nearly ten years ago. My, how time flies. And you know, Hank brought Medwin home with him, playing on my sympathy, with all this mess about the poor man didn’t have no place to live. Hank kept saying did we want to see his friend, Medwin, homeless, out in the streets? And knowing I had a sympathetic heart! So, there was Medwin staying with us. Hank’s friend, but a man almost my own age! And, you know, you remember, at first it was all right because it was just Hank and Medwin being friends and sitting around in the front room, watching television all day, and taking their medication and drinking beer. But when Medwin come justa noticing me and everything, reaching out and touching me when I walked by, no, boy, no way, Hank didn’t go for that. Not with his mother! Not his friend ...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124724044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking at the Dial","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"In May 1880 when, in Chicago, Francis F. Browne started publishing a magazine he called the Dial, he was aligning himself with a spiritual and intellectual tradition. Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson edited the first Dial, a quarterly, in Boston from 1840 to 1844. They had been interested, among other things, in providing a forum for transcendentalism, broad views of theology, and philosophical investigations. Sixteen years later, in Cincinnati, Rev. Moncure D. Conway attempted to carry on the ...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125891225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innocence","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Nydia and I are watching television when a news bulletin comes on saying that somebody just shot a government official in Los Angeles. The official was making a speech. A “suspect” was seized on the spot. The suspect says he is innocent despite the fact that the cameras caught him in the act. So many televised deaths lately, I am too numbed to react. A further loss of spirit is what I feel....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132479002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Richard Wright","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The story of Richard Wright’s career, perhaps more than that of any other black American writer, not only illustrates the high and low points such an author can reach, in terms of his work and how it is received, but also dramatizes sharply the general problems of an independent career in writing. I will examine here the activities of Wright’s writing career and some aspects of his personal life and the works he produced, and touch on correlations among these aspects in the hope of achieving not only a better understanding of his life as a writer but also with the suggestion of what such a life means for a black writer in a culture that is largely white....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116130585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Struga ’75","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0025","url":null,"abstract":"I was invited to Yugoslavia because Galway Kinnell once gave my name, by mail, to Meto Jovanovski in Yugoslavia. Meto was planning to translate American poetry for a Macedonian anthology. This was in October 1973 when Galway and I were teaching at Sarah Lawrence. Meto recommended that Yugoslavia’s International Poetry Festival invite me as the official U.S. representative. I was first invited in 1974 but was unable to accept the invitation. During the spring of 1975, while I was participating in the visiting writer’s program at Columbia University, William Jay Smith, its acting director, told me about his trip to Yugoslavia for the festival in 1974. His description excited my imagination. At the same time an invitation to participate in the 1975 Yugoslavian festival arrived. Traveling expenses would cost more than a thousand dollars. The festival would handle expenses while I was there, but the problem was how to pay for transportation. Bill Smith contacted some people he knew in the State Department and thereby sparked the interest that finally caused the U.S. government to sponsor my trip. Technically this was called a “cultural grant.”...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121498498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hair","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0033","url":null,"abstract":"In the old days\u0000 hair was magical.\u0000 If hair was cut\u0000 you had to make sure it didn’t end up\u0000 in the wrong hands.\u0000 Bad people could mix it\u0000 with, say, the spit of a frog.\u0000 Or with the urine of a rat!\u0000 And certain words...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116714319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Victoria","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"It was a cold Monday morning, in November, with nothing above Chicago but a thick grayness that passed for a sky. The view from Victoria Fouche’s large living room bay window looking out onto South Parkway showed an occasional car going by north or south; but mostly what Victoria saw were the women walking by going to the bus stop, half a block north of her white stone house....","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114378025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Plein Air","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Look at Powell Street\u0000 with the trolley tracks\u0000 and the traffic jams\u0000 and the teaming crowds of tourists\u0000 and little motorbikes scooting about.\u0000 Oh, I know what the French had in mind.\u0000 Pasture with cows.\u0000 Beach house by the sea.\u0000 Hush of underbrush\u0000 where ducks suddenly shoot up...","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126934993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Icarus Crashes and Rises from His Own Ashes","authors":"Kia Corthron","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656007.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Part 3 includes 17 essays. Included in the section is the essay “Painting and Poetry,” in which Major merges the disciplines of visual art and writing, discussing letters written by Vincent van Gogh. “Thanks for the Lunch, Baby,’” imagines a posthumous Paris lunch with Major’s friend, James Baldwin, while “A Paris Fantasy Transformed” focuses on ex-pat Major’s observations of the complications in the European mecca-utopia. “Necessary Distance” can be seen more as a memoir; in it, Major recounts his captivation with painting, a scholarship he received as a teenager to attend sketch classes at Chicago’s Art Institute, his awareness of the absence of African American work from the walls of mainstream galleries, his fascination with form over content, and his frustration with critical pigeon-holing. The essays profiling renowned writers (James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright) are deliberately narrow, addressing aspects of the authors that have been rarely glimpsed. In “Don, Here Is my Peppermint Striped Shirt,” the reader is invited into a virtual 1970s Greenwich Village Moveable Feast: a Christmas party at which Major meets the subject of his essay. “Rhythm: A Hundred Years of African American Poetry” provides a detailed overview of a broad range of black poets, from slavery through the mid-1990s.","PeriodicalId":145201,"journal":{"name":"The Essential Clarence Major","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130108652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}