Sterling Plumpp contrasts the rituals of Africa with African American rituals that have emerged in the twentieth century.

Black Rituals

Politics & Social Sciences

Plumpp, Sterling

Social Sciences

THIRD WORLD PRESS +

<p>""HornMan"" is a poetry collection dedicated to the legendary musician, Von Freeman.</p>

Hornman

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Poetry that comes out of the jazz music of African American artists.

Ornate with Smoke

History & Criticism

This collection is the third in a trilogy of poetic works created by Sterling Plumpp to allow audiences to explore the language of music articulated through the nuances of jazz, blues, and bebop.

Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth

This collection is the third in a trilogy of poetic works created by Sterling Plumpp to allow audiences to explore the language of music articulated through the nuances of jazz, blues, and bebop. The poetry in Velvet Be Bop Kente Cloth utilizes distinct rhythms and a non-conventional use of line and line breaks. It also draws upon the musical innovations established by Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillispie, and others.

A poetic and autobiographical fusing of three landscapes: the poet's native Mississippi, Chicago, and South Africa where Sterling Plumpp travelled in 1992. Plumpp paints here stunning and lyrical parallels between Black lives in the US and Black lives in South Africa. Through the prism of the blues Plumpp sees sharecroppers, maids, and the struggle for civil rights on two continents. Like a blues song, Johannesburg is a work where the reader may find a tragic, and often comic, common humanity as composed and sung by a master.

Johannesburg & Other Poems

Another Chicago Pr

A collection of poems portrays the conditions of life and the struggle for freedom of the blacks of South Africa.

Somehow We Survive: An Anthology of South African Writing

Thunder's Mouth Pr

The Mojo hands call, I must go

Thunder's Mouth Press

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Books by Plumpp, Sterling

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Black Rituals

Hornman

Ornate with Smoke

Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth

Velvet Bebop Kente Cloth

Johannesburg & Other Poems

Somehow We Survive: An Anthology of South African Writing

The Mojo hands call, I must go