Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Politics. African American Studies. THE 5TH INNINGis poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Millers second memoir. Coming afterFat... » 

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Politics. African American Studies. THE 5TH INNINGis poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Millers second memoir. Coming afterFathering Words The Making of an African American Writer published in 2000this book finds Miller returning to baseball the game of his youth in orderto find the metaphor that will provide the measurement of his life. Almost 60he ponders whether his life can now be entered into the official record booksas a success or failure. Not since Langston Hughes has an African Americanpoet so ably combined the oral and literary traditions of his people to producea collective poetic portrait of a singular Black man searching for love in aworld gone awryDouglas Brinkley. «