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catalog abstract "In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory." This book follows in the footsteps or freeway tracks of such classic Los Angeles portraitists as John Fante, Carey McWilliams, and Nathanael West, not missing the seamy side of town, or its caricature dimensions: "a glitter queen with 5 o'clock shadow whose lovers don't care what sins have been committed ... Loving you is an S & M trip. You gave birth to me. And while I love you for that I hate you for the painful afterbirth ... Loving your horizons while hating your gutters. Your obscenely glorious fall skies that redden as deeply as any earthbound passion. The sun a big luscious lick. A visual bliss ozoning. Soon to be followed by a moon to swoon for, heavy and broad like the exposed doughy thigh of a tired old Hollywood harlot." Coleman's tough-minded, high-voltage, straight-from-the-hip commentaries can be read as a manual on urban survival, a guide to navigating "the margins defined by poverty and race, presuming no escape". The object lesson in the tale is Coleman's own life -- a tale of grit and determination, of growing up black and poor in South Central L.A. ("I was big and dark and ugly in a world that did not value me") and living to tell about it. From piece to piece we find the author laboring as waitress, bartender, pink collar corporate slave, editorof a sleazy men's magazine, while caught up in militant revolutionary politics, or witnessing the Watts and Rodney King riots. The triumph implicit in the stow is Coleman's escape into her true calling, that of poetry.".
catalog contributor b10048997.
catalog created "1996.".
catalog date "1996".
catalog date "1996.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
catalog description "Coleman's tough-minded, high-voltage, straight-from-the-hip commentaries can be read as a manual on urban survival, a guide to navigating "the margins defined by poverty and race, presuming no escape". The object lesson in the tale is Coleman's own life -- a tale of grit and determination, of growing up black and poor in South Central L.A. ("I was big and dark and ugly in a world that did not value me") and living to tell about it. From piece to piece we find the author laboring as waitress, bartender, pink collar corporate slave, editorof a sleazy men's magazine, while caught up in militant revolutionary politics, or witnessing the Watts and Rodney King riots. The triumph implicit in the stow is Coleman's escape into her true calling, that of poetry.".
catalog description "In this substantial selection of her occasional journalism, poet Wanda Coleman has judiciously reshaped articles, essays, interviews and columns written over three decades (for, among other places, the Los Angeles Times. L.A. Weekly and The Free Press) into a nearly-seamless personal narrative: "a tour through the restless emotional topography of Los Angeles as glimpsed through the scattered fragments of my living memory."".
catalog description "Introduction: A Career in Brief -- L.A. Love Cry -- Napoleon Ice Cream Fog -- Off the Same Boat -- Native in a Strange Land -- Central Avenue -- Voices from the Curfew Zone -- Dear Mama: Words Having Failed -- Saturday's Child -- Paying for Santa -- Starvation Stew -- A Militant Look Backwards -- Interview with Nikki Giovanni -- Devaluation Blues -- Reflections on a Riot -- 1985 -- No Way Up -- Sweet Susannah, Strange Susannah -- Revisiting Welfare -- California Running -- Parlor Politics -- Remembering Lee -- Jazz Blues -- Laughs for Sale -- Starcrossed Encounters -- Say It Ain't Cool, Joe -- Trouble in Paradise -- School for Thugstas -- Under the Weather -- Beneath the Milky Way -- Astrology to Go -- Afro-American like Me -- On Hold for Dear Life -- The Evil Eye -- Polia Stories -- Thrown for a Loop -- Guys, Dolls & Bit Players -- Gatherings -- Slow Rap for Brandon -- Library Time -- Violence, Art & Hustle -- The Healing Walls -- City in Denial: L.A. Diary, 1993 -- Apartheid Local -- Saving Our Youth -- Letter to Jamal -- Angels with Rap Sheets -- Days of Lang Syne -- Classified Scam -- Sistuhs in Arms -- Committed to Memory -- Catalina Reverie -- The Saga of Darren Stroh -- Jah in Packaging -- An Interview with Bob Marley -- Imagining Disaster -- Day of the Bargains Mall -- The Ultimate L.A. Litmus Test -- Of Fatness and Fitness -- Jungle of City -- Death off Barham -- When Jury Duty Calls -- Night of the Living Verdict -- After the Fallout -- Where the Heart Is -- Sorry, Wrong Wanda -- Rides of Spring -- The Short Goodbye -- Future Perfect -- Nails Nails Nails -- Exit Hollywood -- Late Night Callers -- Dollar and a Dime -- Sleepless in L.A. -- A Valentine.".
catalog description "This book follows in the footsteps or freeway tracks of such classic Los Angeles portraitists as John Fante, Carey McWilliams, and Nathanael West, not missing the seamy side of town, or its caricature dimensions: "a glitter queen with 5 o'clock shadow whose lovers don't care what sins have been committed ... Loving you is an S & M trip. You gave birth to me. And while I love you for that I hate you for the painful afterbirth ... Loving your horizons while hating your gutters. Your obscenely glorious fall skies that redden as deeply as any earthbound passion. The sun a big luscious lick. A visual bliss ozoning. Soon to be followed by a moon to swoon for, heavy and broad like the exposed doughy thigh of a tired old Hollywood harlot."".
catalog extent "292 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Native in a strange land.".
catalog identifier "1574230220 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
catalog identifier "1574230239 (cloth : alk. paper)".
catalog isFormatOf "Native in a strange land.".
catalog issued "1996".
catalog issued "1996.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press,".
catalog relation "Native in a strange land.".
catalog subject "814/.54 20".
catalog subject "Essays.".
catalog subject "PS3553.O47447 N38 1996".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: A Career in Brief -- L.A. Love Cry -- Napoleon Ice Cream Fog -- Off the Same Boat -- Native in a Strange Land -- Central Avenue -- Voices from the Curfew Zone -- Dear Mama: Words Having Failed -- Saturday's Child -- Paying for Santa -- Starvation Stew -- A Militant Look Backwards -- Interview with Nikki Giovanni -- Devaluation Blues -- Reflections on a Riot -- 1985 -- No Way Up -- Sweet Susannah, Strange Susannah -- Revisiting Welfare -- California Running -- Parlor Politics -- Remembering Lee -- Jazz Blues -- Laughs for Sale -- Starcrossed Encounters -- Say It Ain't Cool, Joe -- Trouble in Paradise -- School for Thugstas -- Under the Weather -- Beneath the Milky Way -- Astrology to Go -- Afro-American like Me -- On Hold for Dear Life -- The Evil Eye -- Polia Stories -- Thrown for a Loop -- Guys, Dolls & Bit Players -- Gatherings -- Slow Rap for Brandon -- Library Time -- Violence, Art & Hustle -- The Healing Walls -- City in Denial: L.A. Diary, 1993 -- Apartheid Local -- Saving Our Youth -- Letter to Jamal -- Angels with Rap Sheets -- Days of Lang Syne -- Classified Scam -- Sistuhs in Arms -- Committed to Memory -- Catalina Reverie -- The Saga of Darren Stroh -- Jah in Packaging -- An Interview with Bob Marley -- Imagining Disaster -- Day of the Bargains Mall -- The Ultimate L.A. Litmus Test -- Of Fatness and Fitness -- Jungle of City -- Death off Barham -- When Jury Duty Calls -- Night of the Living Verdict -- After the Fallout -- Where the Heart Is -- Sorry, Wrong Wanda -- Rides of Spring -- The Short Goodbye -- Future Perfect -- Nails Nails Nails -- Exit Hollywood -- Late Night Callers -- Dollar and a Dime -- Sleepless in L.A. -- A Valentine.".
catalog title "Native in a strange land : trials & tremors / Wanda Coleman.".
catalog type "text".