Vol. 40 No. 1&2 (2014): Obsidian 40th Anniversary Special Issue: Jeffery Renard Allen

Published: 2015-09-24

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FEATURED ARTIST

• Jeffery Renard Allen: An Introduction

  Reggie Scott Young & Dana A. Williams

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• From "Black Vonnegut" to Pan African Bard

  Reggie Scott Young

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• Toilet Training

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Pan African Literary Forum: Ghana

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Up South Representing

  Malaika Adero

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• Chapter One "Song of the Shank"

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Artifacts

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Lusona

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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ESSAYS

• Jeffery Boulevard

  Aldon Lynn Nielsen

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• Violence, Fragmentation & Framing in Jeffery Renard Allen's "Rails Under My Back"

  Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris

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• The Red Stain of Love & Betrayal in "Rails Under My Back"

  Pamela R. Fletcher

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• The Secrets of Cosmo & His Creator

  Garrett Butler

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• Battling the Ancestors in Jeffery Renard Allen's "Holding Pattern"

  Jennifer Jordan

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• Jeffery Renard Allen's "Stellar Places"

  Terese Svoboda

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• On Reading Jeffery Renard Allen's "Days"

  Lucy Biederman

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• To Wander is to See

  Melissa Jenks

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• Jeffery Allen's Grace

  René Steinke

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• The Big Kid in the Last Row

  Lore Segal

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• Open Letter to Jeff Allen

  Arthur Flowers

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• Entering "Song of the Shank"

  Ethan Nosowsky

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• "From a Hidden Seam in the Blackness"

  Michael A. Antonucci

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• Inventing Truth

  Horace A. Porter

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• Mapping the Son(g)'s Echo

  Thadious M. Davis

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• Reading the Blind and Blackening the Beyond

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Broken Narrative

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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POETRY

• Days

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• Unchanging Hand

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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• The Marriage Stool Doesn't Weigh Much, Nor Does the Alter, Nor Does the Ladder, Nor Does the Gate

  Jeffrey Renard Allen

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• The Gift

  Jeffrey Renard Allen

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• Poet

  Sterling D. Plumpp

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• The Engine of Dreaming

  Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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• Whenever Hemingway Hums Nigger

  Joshua Bennett

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• Upon this Plot

  Evie Shockley

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• When Time Moves In

  Kitso Kgaboesele

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• Chicken Wire

  David Mills

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• By Way of Marriage

  David Mills

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• Ode to the Confederate Walking

  Ed Pavlić

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• After Coltrane

  Cynthia Dewi Oka

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• Tonight We Drink Whiskey & Dive

  Cynthia Dewi Oka

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• How They Carried Their Hands Past Pounding

  Duriel E. Harris

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• Jeffery's Story

  Jeffery Renard Allen

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FICTION

• Mama's Comb

  Dianca London Potts

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• Reign

  Kim Coleman Foote

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