Tuneful Tales

by Bernice Love Wiggins

As enigmatic and contradictory as far West Texas has always been, it is nevertheless surprising to learn that in 1925 its desert germinated a slender but vibrant shoot of the Harlem Renaissance. Isolated on the U.S.-Mexico border, far from any metropolitan African-American community or literary influences, Bernice Love Wiggins, a perceptive young poet, self-published her first, apparently only, book of poetry. One of only a handful of black writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724859
• ISBN13: 9780896724853
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great for the social studies classroom

This is a great collection of poems, many written in African American Language, for illustrating the lives of African Americans in the early twentieth century. Perfect for the High School Social Studies classroom. And I found myself laughing outloud a few times, too.