James Baldwin
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This new collection celebrates Baldwin the poet. Including the nineteen poems from Jimmy's Blues, the collection also features his poems from a limited-edition art book called Gypsy... Known for his relentless honesty and startlingly prophetic insights on issues of race, class, poverty, and sexual orientation, Baldwin is just as enlightening and bold in his poetry as in his famous novels and essays."--www.Amazon.com.