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Collected novels & poems : Train whistle guitar ; The spyglass tree ; The seven league boots ; The magic keys ; Poems  Cover Image Book Book

Collected novels & poems : Train whistle guitar ; The spyglass tree ; The seven league boots ; The magic keys ; Poems / by Albert Murray ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781598535617
  • ISBN: 1598535617
  • Physical Description: 977 pages : map ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Library of America, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Map on endpapers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 940-977).
Formatted Contents Note:
Train whistle guitar -- The spyglass tree -- The seven league boots -- The magic keys -- Conjucations and reiterations -- Other poems -- Appendix. The Luzana cholly kick -- Manifest Destiny U.S.A. -- Chronology.
Summary, etc.:
"Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Back cover.
Subject: American literature > African American authors.
American fiction > 20th century.
American poetry > 20th century.
American poetry > African American authors > 20th century.
American fiction > African American authors > 20th century.
Murray, Albert.
Genre: Fiction.
Poetry.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9781598535617
Albert Murray: Collected Novels and Poems (LOA #304) : Train Whistle Guitar / the Spyglass Tree / the Seven League Boots / the Magic Keys/ Poems
Albert Murray: Collected Novels and Poems (LOA #304) : Train Whistle Guitar / the Spyglass Tree / the Seven League Boots / the Magic Keys/ Poems
by Murray, Albert; Gates Jr., Henry Louis (Editor); Devlin, Paul (Editor)
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Author Notes

Albert Murray: Collected Novels and Poems (LOA #304) : Train Whistle Guitar / the Spyglass Tree / the Seven League Boots / the Magic Keys/ Poems

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Gates has authored or coauthored 21 books and created 15 documentary films. Paul Devlin teaches English at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and has published essays and criticism in many periodicals. He is the editor of Murray Talks Music- Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues (2016) and Rifftide- The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray (2011), a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association's book award.


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