Blues Vision by Pate, Alexs -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Scene 1 Heart

Birth of the Cool: Minnesota from A Choice of Weapons Poetryapolis Tracks Ottawa, MN, Cemetery—1992 Coming to Minnesota Anybody But Me on Grand Avenue Afrika Kenwood 1964

Scene 2 Remembered

God’s Chosen People Apology for Apostasy? from Swallow the Fish Migrations Glitter Lions Autobiographia Shameless Lutherans St. Peter, Minnesota: Barry Harris Granny’s Story

Scene 3 Places

from The Slide Our Grandmothers Tongue Swallow Christmas Tale Creating Change All the Information We Have from I Believe I’ll Run On … and See What the End’s Gonna Be As You Leave Me Home Delivery

Scene 4 Felt

When a Cat Goes Out Heartsong for Our Father OnScene Love Across the Middle Passage It’s Like a Miracle At the End of Myself Lilac Week The Bank Robbery Mama

Scene 5 Faces

from Born to Be Kwame J. C. McDonald My Rites of Passage Decay I Hear Myself Say (MMA) The Night Before The Brawl in St. Paul Akhenaten’s Dream: SunRise! The Pork Chop Wars Off to the Big City

Scene 6 Heard

Stones and Sticks Who Would You Be? In the City, Homelessness Smart Enough for Ford Zombies, by Andre Lord Sabotage On Performing “Berlitz” Liberia Job

Scene 7 Spoken

Mary Bad Inland Sea Preston’s Dream: Version No. 1 To Be Black in America Don’t Blink Unbuckling Reminders The Stagnant Reassurance in the Communication of the Dead Carrying Home Anniversary Lifeline

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