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Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries to come to terms with his mother's painful death as he goes through the stages of grief. Mark is also reassessing his relationship with his gay twin sister, Maria, a lawyer.

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A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird BluesSet in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and ...

Deeply felt and carefully constructed, the poems in this new collection by Clarence Major both acknowledge poetic literary tradition and explore exciting new narrative and lyrical territories. Throughout Sporadic Troubleshooting, Major uses jazz-like improvisation, applying it to well-known mythological stories to enhance narrative intensity the way Miles Davis applies innovative techniques to a standard Cole Porter number. Breathtakingly vivi...

This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New York. As adults, Ray has found success while Scotty struggles, but both seek love, comfort, and a place in the world"--

An engaging new novel by African-American literary icon Clarence Major reveals personal and political parallels between the past and present.

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Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections ... Whether you've known Major's work for decades or are new to his singular style, [this book] ... offers [an] ... overview [his] career, from his early groundbreaking fiction to his most recent poems"--

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My Studio is a wide-ranging collection in which the author examines a host of topics, some are unextraordinary (the satisfaction one derives from the completion of a task) while others are deep and poignant (mental illness and homelessness). Major frequently uses art--his own paintings or the work of celebrated artists--as entry points into many of his poems. Allusions to light, color, and composition fill this collection as do quirky one-line...

People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women across all thresholds at all times

In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their character and voice, to construct poems that explore the physical world juxtaposed sharply with the inner world. Sometimes realistic, sometimes dreamlike, these poems are dynamic, universal in theme and acknowledge a debt to the great tradition of modern American poetry.

Lavish praise for come by here"With elegant simplicity and uncommon wisdom, Clarence Major gives us not just the truth of his mother's life but the unspoken truth behind the lie of color in the American story. A compelling narrative."-- Rilla Askew, author, Fire in Beulah"A brilliant rendering of a rich and eventful life. With creative insight, love, and admiration, Major shows us how in family life down through the generations, race really ma...

Clarence Major is a consummate artist whose work in poetry, fiction, and painting has been widely recognized. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. Major's works--and this collection in particular--are distinguished by his poetic sociability and his unblinking but generous and affectionate portraiture. In "From Now On, " a r...

This novel, narrated by Baldy, a Navajo/Hopi guitar player, tells the story of Zuni folk singer Painted Turtle, from her childhood experiences on the reservation to her performances in cantinas in the Southwest. First published in 1988, the novel follows Painted Turtle as she seeks to assuage the spiritual sicknesses that have shaped her uneasy relationships with family, friends, and her tribe.

This bluesy, meticulously envisioned collection establishes Major as an important voice in American poetry.

Chicago Heat and Other Stories employs a gorgeous purity and simplicity of language in a series of masterful stories exploring human interaction. Each narrative voice comes forward all at once, individual and complete, without obstacle or complication, enabling the reader to see the characters and feel their emotions. Major does not shy away from the bitter or the harsh, we get to hear it all. Like paint on an easel he blends lyric harmony wit...

Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.