| #5349340 in Books | Wayne State University Press | 1991-04-01 | 1991-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.86 x.67 x5.78l,.69 | File type: PDF | 128 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent!|By Daniel Chasek|Whether one is reading the award-winning essay "walls" or absorbing the author's meeting with James Baldwin, McClane's prose sings unforgettable notes to the reader.|About the Author||Kenneth A. McClane is professor of English at Cornell University. The author of six books of poems, including Take Five: Collected Poems| 1977-1986, McClane holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Walls is the first book of essays by Kenneth McClane, considered by many the finest African American poet of his generation. Coming after his sixth published collection of poems, this is a rich personal narrative about a young black man's coming of age in the 1960s and 70s. Beginning with a powerful essay about the death of his alcoholic brother, McClane writes eloquently about the African American experience from a unique perspective.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Walls: Essays 1985-1990 (African American Life Series) | Kenneth McClane. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
