Thursday, January 22, 2015

Leon Forrest

Leon Forrest needs more attention, but in academia and in the public sphere. He was a great African American writer [1937-1997], a type of 'Joyce of Chicago', as some said. His books are quite long--he wrote many books, the two most famous being: There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden and the very large Divine Days. Here's an excerpt from very beginning of There is a Tree [the gap is the page break of pages 3 to 4]:



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