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When black lawyer Fred Merrit purchases a house in the exclusive white neighborhood bordering Harlem, he has to hire the toughest removal firm in the area to help him get his belongings past the hostile neighbors. The removal men are Jinx Jenkins and Bubber Brown, who make the move anything but straightforward.. The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance, this is a satire of jazz-age New York. First published in 1928, it provides...
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"In God’s Trombones, one of his [James Weldon Johnson's] most celebrated works, the rich tradition of inspirational sermons by Black preachers are reimagined as poetry, reverberating with the musicality and splendid eloquence of the classic spirituals." --publisher's website
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In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through nine editions. Today it is regarded as a landmark of American literature. This volume contains 24 poems from Leaves of Grass, offering a generous...
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