Waiting for Sweet Betty

by Clarence Major

Book Overview

"I find myself writing poems about things I can't paint," writes Clarence Major who, for 40 years, has been viewed by critics as a "polymorphous writer who has been iconoclast, black esthetician, modernist, surrealist, postmodernist, and deconstructionist" (World Literature Today).

In Waiting for Sweet Betty, Major watches the world with careful longing to capture the exchanges and conflicts between person and place. Just as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556591799
• ISBN13: 9781556591792
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 9.2"