Volume 7, Number 2 Fall/Winter 2006 Jay Wright Special Edition

Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora

Volume 7, Number 2

Fall/Winter 2006

Jay Wright Special Edition

Table of Contents

Jay Wright

Axiomatic: a Play

Five Sections from Guide Signs , Book Two

Essays and Poems

Afaa Weaver

The Eighth Man: A Memoir Essay

Lenard D. Moore

Air (for Jay Wright)

Colie Hoffman

Trade

Meta Schettler

Going to the Territory with Jay Wright and Michael Harper

Explorations of Black History and Culture

Colena G. Corbett

Home Kenilworth Park, 1986

Kegura Macharia

Journal Notes: The Aikikuyu of Kenya

Tim Botta

“Sing this City Home:” Diaspora and Return in Jay Wright’s “ The Homecoming Singer” and “ An Invitation to Madison County”

Van G. Garrett

Kwansabas # 1, #2, #3

Reginald Betts

a blues

Elise Aasgaard

Village to Village/ the Spirit Seeks its House: Exile and Homesickness in Jay Wright’s Elaine’s Book

Tyrone Jones

Conjure Woman #3

Oliver Rice

Idling Among Jason’s Books

Ernest Smith

Tremblings and River crossings: Locating Community, Language, and Self in Jay Wright’s Poetry

Charles Lynch

A Vigil for Wholeness