Contents
I. Mandolin • The Event • Variation on Pain • Jiving • Straw Hat • Courtship • Refrain • Variation on Guilt • Nothing Down • The Zeppelin Factory • Under the Viaduct, 1932 • ''Lightnin' Blues'' • Compendium • Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury • Aircraft • Aurora Borealis • Variation on Gaining a Son • One Volume Missing • The Charm • Gospel • Roast Possum • The Stroke • The Satisfaction Coal Company • Thomas at the Wheel II. Canary in Bloom • Taking in Wash • Magic • Courtship, Diligence • Promises • Dusting • A Hill of Beans • Weathering Out • Motherhood • Anniversary • The House on Bishop Street • Daystar • Obedience • The Great Palaces of Versailles • Pomade • Headdress • Sunday Greens • Recovery • Nightmare • Wingfoot Lake • Company • The Oriental Ballerina III. Chronology ==Critical Engagement==
Critical Engagement
Malin Pereira has argued that one of the central functions of Thomas and Beulah is to redefine what "home" means in a cosmopolitan context, such as the kind in which many African Americans found themselves after the Great Migration. ==Notes==