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catalog abstract "MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competition. The Southern judges, it is thought, kept her from winning by presenting a word not on the official list. The word that tripped MacNolia, ironically, was "nemesis." When she died 40 years later, the girl who "was almost/ The national spelling champ" had become a cleaning woman, a grandmother, and "the best damn maid in town." Cox's ambition and her later frustration find incisive shape in this remarkably varied meditation on ambition, racism, discouragement and ennui, where successive pages can bring to mind a handbook of poetic forms (a double sestina, Japanese-inspired syllabics, a blues ghazal and prose poems based on definitions of prepositions), Ann Carson's "TV Men" poems, Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and the documentary film Spellbound. Jordan (Rise) begins in Cox's later life, giving voice to her husband, John Montiere, at "The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date," then to MacNolia herself when in 1970 her son dies just after his return from Vietnam. As counterpoints, Jordan intersperses poems about African-Americans who won more lasting public acclaim, among them Richard Pryor, Josephine Baker and the great labor organizer and orator A. Philip Randolph. Jordan's most quotable poems, however, return to the voice of the 13-year-old speller, who "learned the word chiaroscuro/ By rolling it on my tongue// Like cotton candy the color/ Of day and night." (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal.".
catalog alternative "MacNolia".
catalog contributor b13253868.
catalog created "c2004.".
catalog date "2004".
catalog date "c2004.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
catalog description "Fade In -- "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" -- Z -- in-cho-ate -- John Montiere answer to question one -- The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date -- Meeting John Montiere -- Rant -- from -- Wedding Night -- Looking for Work -- Red Ball Express -- In Service -- John Montiere answer to question two -- Jesse Owens, 1963 -- Infidelity -- When MacNolia Greases My Hair -- af-ter-glow -- John Montiere answer to question three -- with -- "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" -- Elegy to My Son -- I'm Trying -- Dust -- Scenes from My Scrapbook -- This Life -- The Night Richard Pryor Met Mudbone -- Death Letter Blues Ghazal -- Unforgettable -- A -- English -- to -- Rope -- Time Reviews The Ziegfeld Follies Featuring Josephine Baker, 1936 -- Morena -- Asa Philip Randolph -- Green Pastures -- Practice -- Akron Spelling Bee, April 22, 1936 -- On Stage -- MacNolia Backstage with Fats Waller And Bill Robinson at the RKO Palace Theater -- My Dream of Charon -- Details Torn from MacNolia's Diary -- National Spelling Bee Championship Montage -- N-e-m-e-s-i-s Blues -- In Allan Rohan Crite's School's Out -- My One White Friend -- Covering the Spelling Bee -- Fin -- MacNolia's Dream of Shirley Temple -- Fade Out.".
catalog description "MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competition. The Southern judges, it is thought, kept her from winning by presenting a word not on the official list. The word that tripped MacNolia, ironically, was "nemesis." When she died 40 years later, the girl who "was almost/ The national spelling champ" had become a cleaning woman, a grandmother, and "the best damn maid in town." Cox's ambition and her later frustration find incisive shape in this remarkably varied meditation on ambition, racism, discouragement and ennui, where successive pages can bring to mind a handbook of poetic forms (a double sestina, Japanese-inspired syllabics, a blues ghazal and prose poems based on definitions of prepositions), Ann Carson's "TV Men" poems, Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and the documentary film Spellbound. Jordan (Rise) begins in Cox's later life, giving voice to her husband, John Montiere, at "The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date," then to MacNolia herself when in 1970 her son dies just after his return from Vietnam. As counterpoints, Jordan intersperses poems about African-Americans who won more lasting public acclaim, among them Richard Pryor, Josephine Baker and the great labor organizer and orator A. Philip Randolph. Jordan's most quotable poems, however, return to the voice of the 13-year-old speller, who "learned the word chiaroscuro/ By rolling it on my tongue// Like cotton candy the color/ Of day and night." (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal.".
catalog extent "134 p. ;".
catalog identifier "0393059073 (hardcover)".
catalog issued "2004".
catalog issued "c2004.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : W.W. Norton & Co.,".
catalog subject "811/.6 22".
catalog subject "African American teenage girls Poetry.".
catalog subject "PS3610.O654 M33 2004".
catalog subject "Spelling bees Poetry.".
catalog tableOfContents "Fade In -- "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" -- Z -- in-cho-ate -- John Montiere answer to question one -- The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date -- Meeting John Montiere -- Rant -- from -- Wedding Night -- Looking for Work -- Red Ball Express -- In Service -- John Montiere answer to question two -- Jesse Owens, 1963 -- Infidelity -- When MacNolia Greases My Hair -- af-ter-glow -- John Montiere answer to question three -- with -- "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" -- Elegy to My Son -- I'm Trying -- Dust -- Scenes from My Scrapbook -- This Life -- The Night Richard Pryor Met Mudbone -- Death Letter Blues Ghazal -- Unforgettable -- A -- English -- to -- Rope -- Time Reviews The Ziegfeld Follies Featuring Josephine Baker, 1936 -- Morena -- Asa Philip Randolph -- Green Pastures -- Practice -- Akron Spelling Bee, April 22, 1936 -- On Stage -- MacNolia Backstage with Fats Waller And Bill Robinson at the RKO Palace Theater -- My Dream of Charon -- Details Torn from MacNolia's Diary -- National Spelling Bee Championship Montage -- N-e-m-e-s-i-s Blues -- In Allan Rohan Crite's School's Out -- My One White Friend -- Covering the Spelling Bee -- Fin -- MacNolia's Dream of Shirley Temple -- Fade Out.".
catalog title "M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A : poems / A. Van Jordan.".
catalog title "MacNolia".
catalog type "Poetry. fast".
catalog type "text".