Jazz June : a self-portrait in essays / Clifford Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Clifford, Author.

Series:

Crux (Athens, Ga.)

Crux : the Georgia series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Clifford.

African American authors--Biography.

African American authors.

African American men--Social conditions.

African American men.

American essays.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 152 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Jazz June: A Self-Portrait in Essays traces a life, not by recounting its major events but by going deep into its representative moments: the moments of wonder, hope, fear, uncertainty, humor, love, and epiphany that make up a human experience. Along the way, as a son of a single mother, as a young man in the big city, as a husband and father, as an aging empty-nester, and as an artist, the author discovers, with each new role, more of who he is. A lover of the arts, he offers creative reflections on literature, music, and film; a Black American whose life is informed but not defined by race, he embraces African-American culture while remaining defiantly himself"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The moon, the world, the dream: on family and hidden worlds

Tales from Washington : on family, fights, home, and the boys of youth

Ming Yang Fu, or seeking words at age thirteen : on the boys of youth, fights, family, home, comics, writing, race, and romantic yearning

Jazz June : on romantic yearning, jazz, ambition, poetry, and the girls of youth

On the bus : on the girls of youth, travel, TV, writing, and criticism

Cities, bulls, and the boy at seventeen : on criticism, romantic yearning, film, and redemption

Equinox : on film, writing, ambition, and jazz

Summer of '83 : on family, travel, war, the women of youth, and redemption

On rivers : on family, jazz, poetry, the path not followed, and looking Back

Long red Monte Carlo: on leaving home and finding one's way

The home of two cliffs : on finding one's way and fathering

Life with rodents : on fathering and leaving home

La Bohème : on writing, ambition, the women of youth, and the path not followed

New York in two reels : on film, TV, writing, and home

Interlude : on film and romance

Out of the past : on family, work, and looking back

Blues for Mister Stanley : on criticism, race, and identity

Summer of '07 : on work, health, and fathering

Eric Garner and me : on race, identity, and redemption

Seventeen notes on singing : on soul music and the path not followed

Rooms and clarinets : on race and health

The quiet dark : on fights, health, fathering, film, TV, and looking back.

Other Format:

Online version Thompson, Clifford Jazz June

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780820374642

0820374644

OCLC:

1511528223

Publisher Number:

CIPO000301407