"Get your ass in the water and swim like me" : narrative poetry from Black oral tradition / [compiled by] Bruce Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Bruce, 1936- compiler1.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk poetry, American.

Toasts (Folk poetry).

Narrative poetry, American.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xvi, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm & phonodisc (2 s. : 6 in. ; 33 1/3 rpm. microgroove) in pocket

Other Title:

Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1974.

Contents:

The Toast World. Telling and Learning Toasts. Functions and Themes: Violence, Sex, and the Failure of Romance. Pimps and Their Ladies: Insult and Reputation. Badman and Trickster: Functional Outsiders. Shine and the Titanic: Goodbye to Charlie. Beyond Poetry

The Toasts. Badmen, Crime and Jail. Pimps, Whores, and Other Lovers and Friends. Freaks and Supersex. Signifying and Poolshooting Monkey. The Titanic Toasts. Miscellaneous Narratives. Short Verses and Drinking Toasts.

Notes:

"This is a book of toasts - narrative poems from black American oral tradition. Along with black folk sermons and lyrics of worksongs, spirituals, and blues, the toasts comprise an extraordinary body of folk poetry matched hardly anywhere in the world."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and indexes.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has CD wanting.

Banks Collection copy is "Harvard Paperback" edition.

ISBN:

0674354206 :

0674354214

OCLC:

1256198