![Comments (usable in publicity) on James A.
Emanuel’s poetry:
“In the annals of American poetry it is difficult
to conceive of a more neglected great poet than
James A. Emanuel” (Daniel E. Scheider, “The Not
So Strange Emanuel Case,” Internet essay, March
6, 2001, www. Cosmoetica.com/S1-DES1.htm, else-
where adding “for my money THE most neglected
published poet of the 20th Century.”
“Emanuel is a GREAT POET-period.” (Schneider,
same essay, p. 4)
“Un poète de premier order ....Indubitablement,
Emanuel a dèja plus d’un pied sur la terre -pro-
Mise.” (Michel Fabre, rev. of The Force and the
Reckoning in AFRAM Review, June 2001)
“I love [italics his] your work, and look forward
to reading more.” (Ltr from Henry Louis Gates, 1995)
With “a grand irony,” Emanual writes “direct-
experience poetry,” beautiful poems, but also
poems “short and violent like sort of a rifle
shot.” (“Panorama” program, France Culture Ra-
dio, 3 Sept. 1992)
“Dr. Emanuel, a pioneer in the study of black li-
terature and a critically acclaimed poet, is a
living link to past expatriates, says Princeton
University literary scholar Arnold Rampersad ....
There were no courses in African American liter-
ature when Emanuel started out .... He researched
everything from the original texts. Dr. Emanuel
managed to publish an error-free volume on [Lang-
ston] Hughes. My book had mistakes .... His didn’t.”
(Toni Y. Joseph, One Voice, 1994, pp. 144-45)
“It is high time for James A. Emanuel, one of our
finest and most adventurous poets, to receive his
due acclaim. ... to be heard round the world.”
(X.J. Kennedy, cover of The Force and the Reckoning.)
The Force and the Reckoning “is splendid and
original achievement. I know of know similar book.”
(Michel Fabre, cover of this book)
Naomi on JAZZ (ltr 19.04.2000), herein.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/4/4/5/445e8d3e-1f19-48f9-9797-249dbc7d1dff/attachment/accf4d36017c7f74427f5cc6a1625b02.jpg)
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Uploaded ![Hart Leroy Bibbs
Fine Art Photography
Bibbs/Campbell
76, rue de Bac
75007 Paris
Sontaq
11 Oct '92
Brosman, Deadly James,
A hello from the other
trouble over in NYC.
[drawing of a rhinoceros]
From nearer trouble, just wanted to
should at you HELLO, DEADLY! Hope
the words flow and the rhymes unglue.
Last time I talked with brosman Ted, he
said - no he only laughed - you writing
songs and me writing an African Ballet.
Maybe it is funny - BUT - is
when you got to go you got to go.
Next change you come by give me the
pitch of brotherly love.
Sincerely,
Bibbs.
P.S. Had back surgery Friday
and my ass hurts blues.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/a/0/6/a06ceadc-5857-40ca-83ef-eb3873d008c5/attachment/db083818c3d5172fed10c99210b54022.jpg)
Letter from Leroy Hart Bibbs October 1992
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If all details can be worked out amicably, we can anticipate
publication no later than June, 1978. Anything earlier than that
would be virtually impossible for us. Would this time be satis-
factory for you?
When you write again, please send your home telephone number. If
it is necessary to call, I would probably do so in the evening.
My home number is (313) 861-1280; please feel free to call any
evening if you have any questions.
Have your received a copy of 0 Africa, Where I Baked My Bread
from Lance Jeffers? I did not send you one from the press as
he said he would send an autographed copy. Please let me know
your reaction to it. (Thank you for your critical comment, by
the way.) If you see fit to write a review of the book, I am
sure it will be most helpful.
I discussed your poem, "The Negro," in my creative writing class
today. It is an extremely controlled and effective poem, I think,
and I have often used it in my classes.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and hope for a long and
mutually satisfactory professional relationship.
Sincerely,
[signature]
Naomi Long Madgett
Editor](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/e/e/f/eef96df1-7f82-4b93-a0fe-bff30ae11b9c/attachment/77f9edfa701ab4c8a91bdc4f94550476.jpg)
Letter from Naomi Long Madgett November 4 1977 Page 2 of 2
![UNIWERSYTET WARZAWSKI
Warszawa, Krakowskia Przedm. 26/28
(pieczęć podluzna wstawcy)
Legitymacja Nr Ʌ24Ʌ\75
James EMANUEL
(nazwisko)
Emanuel James
(imie — imiona)
prof. madzwyczajny. W. Neofilologii
w Uniwersytecie Warszawslum
Warszawa dn 2 Paździerudio 1975
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i WSPOLP [intelligible stamp over text] (podpis wystawcy]
Pu-Os=22- zam. 154/DW/ON
O ZGraf. Lz. 32/C (500.000) 10.3.74 r.
Uprawnia do
przejazdowów
kolejami
państwowymi
wedlug ulg
taryfowych
dla
pracowników
państwowych
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James A Emanual
(podpis posiadacza legitymacji)
Wazna na rok wystawienia 1975
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Waźność legitymacji przedluźono na rok:
1976 19.....r. 19.....r. 19.....r.
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James A. Emanuel University of Warsaw Identification Card
James Emanuel reading poetry at Meray Fiddler Pub in Montmartre Paris Photo
Marvin Holdt at Le Barry
![1st draft, 55 Sinclair Rd, London, 22 July 1978, 2:08 p.m.—3:13; 3:50—5:32.
Changed 24 July, 11:40 a.m.—12:07
THE ONE YOU CAN’T FORGET: A TRAIN FROM LONDON
Riding backwards, [too late to change,]
I felt her opposite me,
[her lipstick something I remembered
Warm as wine spilled on my lips]
strange her [second] doubled self [a shadowed] in tranquil window-box outhinged,
glassframed, [and] floatfixed in my lucid eye
that saw it sharp as Paddington and Royal Oak
[outside] gliding outside, photo-real
[from] on stations [for each mind] to cling to,
like friends at destination Reading, [friends to cling to,]
[minutes left] twenty minutes left for [patchwork] picture[s], patchwork,
[clicking back] clickbacks to those lively whiles and [times] aches between
now focused on a dizzy track of life outside
that snatched my window-watching to [a] its stream
that [climbed] flashed across the glassy face and arms
of her whose placid self
ranged with me knee to knee,
her outdoor countenance alive
beneath the hordes that slivered her:](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/3/e/4/3e49d202-48a5-4ee7-9f75-d9879ccbc888/attachment/ea5d906662758acda118bf16f2f6052c.jpg)
THE ONE YOU CAN'T FORGET: A TRAIN FROM LONDON
Scarecrow: the Road to Toulouse 1
Scarecrow: the Road to Toulouse 2
El Toro (with annotations) 2