Obsidian
III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Volume 1, Number 2
Fall/Winter 2000
Poets as Outlaws/Cowboys: Gerald Barrax, Sam Cornish

Table of Contents
- Letter from
the Editor
- Special Section
on Gerald Barrax
Essay
Poems
Depressed
Sonnet
Dreary Pantoum
My Saint Joan
Why I am Jerald with a G and Gerry with a J
An Old Joke for the Media Ministries
For a Racist I've Come to love
Penis Envoy
The UN Children
Asking a Poet
Steven B.
Katz
Jacob R. Rayapati
Interview with Poet Gerald [W.] Barrax
Barbara Baines
Friendship is Love Without Wings
Jonathan Minton
Necessary Mysteries: Gerald Barrax's "Not Often Near
Such Water"
Gerald Barrax
- Special Section
on Sam Cornish
Poems
Lazy Bones
Them is Us
Negro Women of the Movies
For John Ford
The Green Hornet
The Law Takes Its Toll
Lincoln: The Walk By The River
Is This The End of Me
Sinatra
Pickup on South Street
The South is My Home
Lois Lane
Lingering in the Negro Museum
William Corbett
Interview with Sam Cornish
Jon Woodson
Alpha and Omega: Expressive Form In Sam Cornish's Poetry
Joyce Peseroff
James Randall
Sam Cornish and the Old Gang
Sam Cornish
Sam Cornish
- Essays
Christine Levecq
Philosophies
of History in Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder (1936)
Anthony Valerio
Cool Skin:
Remembering Toni Cade Bambara
Sandra L. West
- Short Stories
Stephanie Powell
Watts
Denise Turney
David Pilgrim
- Book Review
- Contributors
Return to the Obsidian III homepage