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Books by Melvin Dixon
  | | Trouble the Water(1st Edition) by Melvin Dixon Hardcover, 243 Pages, Published 1989 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-0-932511-23-2, ISBN: 0-932511-23-6 "Trouble the Water moves among finely woven layers of time and place as it takes on a new and controversial theme in contemporary black writing, the search for family reconciliation. Twenty years after running away from home in Pee Dee, North Carolina, Jordan Henry believed he had found success, as a young college professor of history, a married man, and a resident of New England, whose colonial past he knew so well. When Jordan finds hi ..." |
 | | Vanishing Rooms(Reprint) A Novel by Melvin Dixon Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 2001 by Cleis Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57344-123-0, ISBN: 1-57344-123-6 "Completed prior to Dixon's early death from AIDS in 1992, Vanishing Rooms is a lovely, lyrical narrative ballet from a talent who just seemed to be reaching full bloom. It's also a bittersweet suggestion of how that talent might have overcome the occasional pretentious false note to attain true virtuosity had it not been robbed of time. Set in New York City in the fall of 1975, the story shifts fluidly among the voices of Jesse (a young ..." |
 | | The Collected Poetry(Updated) (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French) by Leopold Sedar Senghor, Melvin Dixon Paperback, 639 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1832-7, ISBN: 0-8139-1832-4 "Leopold Sedar Senghor was not only president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, he is also Africa's most famous poet. A cofounder of the Negritude cultural movement, he is recognized as one of the most significant figures in African literature. This bilingual edition of Senghor's complete poems made his work available for the first time to English-speaking audiences. His poetry, alive with sensual imagery, contrasts the lushn ..." |
 | | Trouble the Water(1st Edition) by Melvin Dixon Paperback, 243 Pages, Published 1992 by Washington Square Press ISBN-13: 978-0-671-74187-7, ISBN: 0-671-74187-X "Trouble the Water moves among finely woven layers of time and place as it takes on a new and controversial theme in contemporary black writing, the search for family reconciliation. Twenty years after running away from home in Pee Dee, North Carolina, Jordan Henry believed he had found success, as a young college professor of history, a married man, and a resident of New England, whose colonial past he knew so well. When Jordan finds hi ..." |
 | | Vanishing Rooms(Reprint) (Plume) by Melvin Dixon Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1992 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-452-26761-9, ISBN: 0-452-26761-7 "Prior to Melvin Dixon’s death from AIDS in 1992 when he was on the verge of breaking out as an acclaimed novelist, his talent was compared to that of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. In Vanishing Rooms, the author amply demonstrates his literary promise with a compelling love story of interracial sex and urban violence set in Manhattan’s West Village in the 1970s." |
 | | Vanishing Rooms(1st Edition) 2 by Melvin Dixon Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1991 by Dutton Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-525-24965-8, ISBN: 0-525-24965-6 "Completed prior to Dixon's early death from AIDS in 1992, Vanishing Rooms is a lovely, lyrical narrative ballet from a talent who just seemed to be reaching full bloom. It's also a bittersweet suggestion of how that talent might have overcome the occasional pretentious false note to attain true virtuosity had it not been robbed of time. Set in New York City in the fall of 1975, the story shifts fluidly among the voices of Jesse (a young ..." |
 | | Trouble the Water(1st Edition) by Melvin Dixon Paperback, 243 Pages, Published 1989 by Fiction Collective 2 ISBN-13: 978-0-932511-24-9, ISBN: 0-932511-24-4 "Trouble the Water moves among finely woven layers of time and place as it takes on a new and controversial theme in contemporary black writing, the search for family reconciliation. Twenty years after running away from home in Pee Dee, North Carolina, Jordan Henry believed he had found success, as a young college professor of history, a married man, and a resident of New England, whose colonial past he knew so well. When Jordan finds hi ..." |
 | | Ride Out the Wilderness Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature by Melvin Dixon Hardcover, 182 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01414-7, ISBN: 0-252-01414-6 "From the lowest "ditch" of existence Ray delivers the same message Langston Hughes had announced from the racial mountaintop. Writing in ... We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how. and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves." McKay's path to that mountaintop of self- possession goes along the lower frequencies of the Ditch. " 'The wul' goes round and round,' " Banjo says, adding a geometrical shape ..." |
 | | Shade An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent by Melvin Dixon, James Earl Hardy, A. Cinque Hicks, John Keene Jr., Jaime Manrique, Bil Wright, Seventeen Others, Bruce Morrow, Charles H. Rowell, Samuel R. Delany Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1996 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-380-78305-2, ISBN: 0-380-78305-3 "In the Black gay literary tradition that includes such gifted American writers as James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, Shade is the first anthology devoted exclusively to fiction by contemporary Black gay writers. Powerful and often stunning, the stories in Shade are so brilliant they will cast a long shadow for years to come." |
 | | Black Art Notes (Paperback) by Tom Lloyd, Amiri Baraka, Ray Elkins, Val Gray Ward, Francis Watd, Jeff Donaldson, Melvin Dixon, Babatunde Folayemi, Bing Davis Paperback, Published 2021 by Primary Information, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-73448-975-0, ISBN: 1-73448-975-8 "Originally published in 1971, the book was conceived as a critical response to the Contemporary Black Artists in America exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art but grew into a “concrete affirmation of Black Art philosophy as ..." |
 | | Love's Instruments(1st Edition) by Melvin Dixon, Elizabeth Alexander Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1995 by Tia Chucha ISBN-13: 978-1-882688-07-4, ISBN: 1-882688-07-4 "final collection of poems by late novelist/poet" |
 | | Change of Territory(1st Edition) (Callaloo Poetry S.) by Melvin Dixon Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 1987 by Callaloo Journal ISBN-13: 978-0-912759-04-3, ISBN: 0-912759-04-6 "Change of Territory is a first book of poems that covers much ground in historical and personal experiences through the language of exile and return and a search for love and selfhood. The poems move from the sharecropping South to sights in the North that "catch your eyes / and never give them back," from the hilly streets of Montmartre in Paris to the disturbing interior of a slave house on the island of Gorée in Senegal, from family ..." |
 | | Ceremony for Minneconjoux(1st Edition) Poems (Callaloo poetry series) by Brenda Marie Osbey, Melvin Dixon Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-912759-00-5, ISBN: 0-912759-00-3 "Osbey's first book of poetry, Ceremony for Minneconjoux, uses the many voices of black women of New Orleans to weave what Mary A. McCay in American Women Writers called "a tapestry of black New Orleans life." These women, whom Osbey calls "madhouse women," reflect their African backgrounds but also the influences of the Spanish and French cultures so prevalent in New Orleans. The title character, "minneconjoux," for example, speaks of h ..." |
 | | Vanishing Rooms A Novel by Melvin Dixon 213 Pages, Published 2001 by Cleis Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57344-639-6, ISBN: 1-57344-639-4 "In Vanishing Rooms, the author amply demonstrates his literary promise with a compelling love story of interracial sex and urban violence set in Manhattan’s West Village in the 1970s." |
 | | Vanishing Rooms 2 by Melvin Dixon Published 1991 by Dutton Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-00-014020-3, ISBN: 0-00-014020-1 |
 | | Trouble the water by Melvin Dixon Published 1989 by University Of Colorado And Fiction Collective Two ISBN-13: 978-0-932524-41-6, ISBN: 0-932524-41-9 |
 | | The Collected Poetry (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French) by Leopold Sedar Senghor, Melvin Dixon Hardcover, 639 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1275-2, ISBN: 0-8139-1275-X "The complete poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, possibly Africa's most famous poet, are offered in translation for the first time in this bilingual edition. The book, representing the culmination of a lifetime of work, includes "Lost Poems", a collection of Senghor's earliest work. Senghor's poetry contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa's past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Co-founder ..." |
 | | A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader by Melvin Dixon, Dwight A. Mcbride, Justin A. Joyce Hardcover, 159 Pages, Published 2006 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-866-1, ISBN: 1-57806-866-5 "Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a widely read chronicler of the African American gay experience. His novels Trouble the Water and Vanishing Rooms still receive considerable attention, as do his collections of poetry and his major work of criticism, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. In A ..." |
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