Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 1, Number 2
Fall/Winter 2000

Poets as Outlaws/Cowboys: Gerald Barrax, Sam Cornish

Gerald Barrax                                                     Sam Cornish

Table of Contents

• Letter from the Editor
• Special Section on Gerald Barrax
  Essay
  Why Do I Write Sonnets?

  Poems

  Depressed Sonnet
  Dreary Pantoum
  My Saint Joan
  Why I am Jerald with a G and Gerry with a J
  An Old Joke for the Media Ministries
  For a Racist I've Come to love
  Penis Envoy
  The UN Children
  Asking a Poet

  Steven B. Katz

  Black Adam
  Jacob R. Rayapati
  Interview with Poet Gerald [W.] Barrax
  Barbara Baines
  Friendship is Love Without Wings
  Jonathan Minton
  Necessary Mysteries: Gerald Barrax's "Not Often Near Such Water"
  Gerald Barrax
  Selected Bibliography
• Special Section on Sam Cornish
  Poems
  Lazy Bones
  Them is Us
  Negro Women of the Movies
  For John Ford
  The Green Hornet
  The Law Takes Its Toll
  Lincoln: The Walk By The River
  Is This The End of Me
  Sinatra
  Pickup on South Street
  The South is My Home
  Lois Lane
  Lingering in the Negro Museum
  

  William Corbett

  Interview with Sam Cornish
  Jon Woodson
  Alpha and Omega: Expressive Form In Sam Cornish's Poetry
  Joyce Peseroff
  A Tribute to Sam Cornish
  James Randall
  Sam Cornish and the Old Gang
  Sam Cornish
  Bibliography
  Sam Cornish
  Photo Gallery
• Essays
  Christine Levecq
  Philosophies of History in Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder (1936)
  Anthony Valerio
  Cool Skin: Remembering Toni Cade Bambara
  Sandra L. West
  No Tea For The Fever
• Short Stories
  Stephanie Powell Watts
  Flounder
  Denise Turney
  Dusty Roads
  David Pilgrim
  Buzzard
• Book Review
  Shara McCallum
  Three Book Reviews
• Contributors