Crossing the Danger Water

Crossing the Danger WaterBy: Deirdre Mullane The most comprehensive collection of writing by and about African Americans ever to appear in one volume Never before has such an impressive and far reaching mix of writings by African Americans been gathered together into a single anthology. Combining an extensive selection of poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters dating from the pre Colonial era through today's best and most well known writers, this anthology

picking their targets with cunning precision

Melissa receives a call from her sister

and finds his first brush with popularity

Now facing a new home

Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality

snappy dialogue and superior math skills

book collectors

and reports that inspired the acclaimed movies Saturday Night Fever

Join a group of endearing forest creatures as they bake and eat cranberry-butter-pie muffins

Underneath the cherry tree in our garden there is a little hole

this is how we play

will make you bleed