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Published on: 7/16/2002
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As a "poet, novelist, essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer and painter, Major is one of our most compelling, challenging, prolific and multitalented contemporary American artists of African descent," says Bernard W. Bell, professor of African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
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Bell is also the author of a book devoted to Major's works, "Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist," which was published last year.
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"His poetry is wider known than his novels because his novels were published in a collective, a group of white postmodernist writers," Bell says.
The Kirkus Review has noted that Major's poetry is often characterized by "an improvisational, jazz-like quality."