M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A : poems / A. Van Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, A. Van.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teenage girls--Poetry.

African American teenage girls.

Spelling bees--Poetry.

Spelling bees.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

134 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

MacNolia

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.

Summary:

"Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention."--"Black Issues Book Review" In 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a doctor was changed irrevocably. Her story, told in a poignant nonlinear narrative, illustrates the power of a pivotal moment in a life.

Contents:

Fade In

"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"

Z

in-cho-ate

John Montiere answer to question one

The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date

Meeting John Montiere

Rant

from

Wedding Night

Looking for Work

Red Ball Express

In Service

John Montiere answer to question two

Jesse Owens, 1963

Infidelity

When MacNolia Greases My Hair

af-ter-glow

John Montiere answer to question three

with

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

Elegy to My Son

I'm Trying

Dust

Scenes from My Scrapbook

This Life

The Night Richard Pryor Met Mudbone

Death Letter Blues Ghazal

Unforgettable

A

English

to

Rope

Time Reviews The Ziegfeld Follies Featuring Josephine Baker, 1936

Morena

Asa Philip Randolph

Green Pastures

Practice

Akron Spelling Bee, April 22, 1936

On Stage

MacNolia Backstage with Fats Waller And Bill Robinson at the RKO Palace Theater

My Dream of Charon

Details Torn from MacNolia's Diary

National Spelling Bee Championship Montage

N-e-m-e-s-i-s Blues

In Allan Rohan Crite's School's Out

My One White Friend

Covering the Spelling Bee

Fin

MacNolia's Dream of Shirley Temple

Fade Out.

Notes:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2005

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0393059073

9780393059076

0393327647

9780393327649

OCLC:

54446629