Dinah's Pain & Other Poems of the Black Life Experience

DINAH'S PAIN is an Afro-American collection of grassroot ideas, hearsay & surmise fashioned into anecdotes, songs, jokes & vignettes in clear comprehensible form. Most of the material comes from front porch talk of the folks the author knew as a child. It is the living lore of a small community of blacks who were little influenced in their traditional beliefs & values by outsiders. Big Mama has a varied appeal. Selections from her works are studied in university classes, & recited in store-front churches. Here is what some reviewers have said of the Big Mama writings: "...it focuses on the positive strength of her people to laugh at themselves."--Betty Moritz, QUINCY HERALD-WHIG. "The book is funny, & it is also clear & hard-hitting...shows the humor, irony of being black"--A.D. Hopkins, NEVADAN REVIEW JOURNAL. "very witty...retold with understanding & skill"--Ruthe Deskin, LAS VEGAS SUN. "...captures the essence of a people & a culture that will soon be lost to the past."--Sondra West, Editor, AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNAL.Big Mama is the author of 'Dinah's Pain & Other Poems of the Black Life Experience' with ISBN 9780962037306 and ISBN 0962037303.