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When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that
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1961
The bronze bow
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In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends Hannah Tupper, an old woman considered a
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1958
The witch of Blackbird Pond
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Elizabeth George Speare.
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1991
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Elizabeth George Speare
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Apseloff, Marilyn.
Marilyn Fain Apseloff.
1991
Elizabeth George Speare
c2009.
This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as on
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University of Georgia Press,
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Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry
We must be careful / Earth is a living thing / Mountains of California, part I / Mountain road ends here / Queen Anne's lace / On summer / Yellow jacket / Eclogue at twilight / Ruellia noctiflora / Evening primrose / Night-blooming cereus / September night / Sweet enough ocean, cotton / Metamorphism / Brown girl's nature poem: provincetown / What more? / Be careful / Watching blackbirds turn to ghosts / If winter comes, can spring? / 31 words * prose poems [#12]
We are not strangers here / For a farmer / To waste at trees / White dog / You must walk this lonesome / Down from the houses of magic / Ephemera / Sleepwalker on the mountain / #543 / Aphrodite of economy / Arachis hypogaea / In the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge, thinking of Rachel Carson / language / For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) / Generations / Work / Poem to my child, if ever you shall be / To a certain lady, in her garden / Urban nature / September songs
from 12 million Black voices / Another April / Barriers / Young peacock / Urban renewal: XIII / Bees / Carrion / Look at the blackbird fall / Flight of the California condor / Since everyone can never be safe / Won't be but a minute / Called / Harvest song / Black man talks of reaping / Wood and rain / Joy in the woods / Sorrow home / Blues aubade (or, Revision of the lean, post-modernist pastorale) / Romance / April is on the way
Boll weevils, coyotes, and the color of nuisance / Miscarriage in October with ladybugs / Man reading in bed by a window with bugs / Pest / Ambition II: mosquito in the mist / Market / For those who need a true story / Postcard to an ecologist / Nature boy / Plague of starlings / O believer / Brown menace or poem to the survival of roaches / Life / What a snakehead discovered in a Maryland pond and a poet in corporate America have in common / Lost conquistador / Beginning of the end of the world / Carpenter bee / Yellowjackets
Flowers / On imagination / For Saundra / Natural world / Lament for dark peoples / White things / Parsley / Haunted oak / from Rape of Florida, Canto I / Swimchant of nigger mer-folk (an aquaboogie set in lapis) / Water USA / Migration / February leaving / Blue horses / Sick man looks at flowers / Prodigal / Potters' field / Monument
Disasters, nature, and poetry / Floodtide / Children of the Mississippi / Emmett Till / Sign post / Song / Sacred history of the earth / Greenness taller than gods / San Francisco, spring 1986 / Cure / Reapers / Erasure / Floodsong 2: water moccasin's spiritual / Requiem / Ice storm
Shepherd's tale / Beehive / Black-and-white dusk at Limantour Beach / Sympathy / Sea-turtle and the shark / #175 / European folk tale variant / Man raised as chicken / Far / Spider speaks / Hummingbird / Herd / Speed / Points of view / Requiem for a nest / Surfaces and masks: XXX / Minks / Possum / Appaloosa / April lyric/All I know is
April in Eatonton / Locus / Jaguaripe / What there was / Wind talker / Mulberry fields / I am black and the trees are green / Maple remains / Tallahatchie lullaby, baby / Out in the country of my country / Three days of forest, a river, free / American light / Look ahead, look south: the future / Southern song / Wave / Her table mountain / from Juneteenth: the bicentennial poem / Tap-root / Last talk with Jim Hardwick / History as apple tree
Writing home / #559 / Millpond / Seven pastorals at sixteen / Before a screen door / Pull / Two directions / My grandfather walks in the woods / Mississippi gardens / I called them trees / Beaches, why I don't care for them / At 57, my father learns to grow things / Suburban noir / Letter to the local police / Homeopathic / Root / What my child learns of the sea / Ritual of season / More than once in caves / Pachuta, Mississippi/A memoir
First skunk of spring / [Earth, I thank you] / Bemidji in spring / Winter poem / After the winter / For Alexis / Thank you / Spring down / Deep in the quiet wood / Violets / Man, his bowl, his raspberries / What to eat, and what to drink, and what to leave for poison / Earth song / Rondeau / Southern living / Geraniums / My Mississippi spring / Fearless
Dungy, Camille T., 1972-
Ed Roberson -- Lucille Clifton -- Al Young -- G.E. Patterson -- June Jordan -- George Moses Horton -- Nikki Giovanni -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Marilyn Nelson -- Rita Dove -- Robert Hayden -- George Marion McClellan -- Thylias Moss -- Helene Johnson -- Toni Wynn -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Ed Roberson -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Alvin Aubert -- Rita Shockley.
Ravi Howard -- James A. Emanuel -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Carl Phillips -- Evie Shockley -- Cyrus Cassells -- George Marion McClellan -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Richard Wright -- Mark McMorris -- Marilyn Nelson -- Anthony Walton -- Camille T. Dungy -- June Jordan -- Lucille Clifton -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Ross Gay -- Sterling Brown -- Ed Roberson -- Reginald Shepherd.
Richard Wright -- Anne Spencer -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Lenard D. Moore -- Major Jackson -- Audre Lorde -- Anthony Walton -- June Jordan -- Wanda Coleman -- Camille T. Dungy -- Patricia Smith -- Michael S. Harper -- Jean Toomer -- Arna Bontemps -- Melvin Dixon -- Claude McKay -- Margaret Walker -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Ed Roberson -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson.
C.S. Giscombe -- Amber Flora Thomas -- Gregory Pardlo -- Major Jackson -- Tim Seibles -- #459 / Richard Wright -- Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Tara Betts -- Lenard D. Moore -- C.S. Giscombe -- Robert Hayden -- Janice N. Harrington -- Audre Lorde -- Kwame Alexander -- Kamilah Aisha Moon -- Shane Book -- Lucille Clifton -- Natasha Trethewey -- Yusef Komunyakaa.
Alice Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Nikki Giovanni -- G.E. Patterson -- Langston Hughes -- Anne Spencer -- Rita Dove -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Albery Whitman -- Douglas Kearney -- Clarence Major -- Major Jackson -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Ed Roberson -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Arna Bontemps -- Cynthia Parker-Ohene -- Natasha Trethewey.
Mona Lisa Saloy -- Askia M. Touré -- Sterling Brown -- James A. Emanuel -- Devorah Major -- Audre Lorde -- G.E. Patterson -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Patricia Spears Jones -- Carl Phillips -- Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey -- Jean Toomer -- Earthquake blues / Ishmael Reed -- Amber Flora Thomas -- Douglas Kearney -- Anne Spencer -- Robert Hayden.
Sean Hill -- Jean Toomer -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Richard Wright -- Harryette Mullen -- Wendy S. Walters -- C. S. Giscombe -- Shara McCallum -- Cyrus Cassells -- Tim Seibles -- Cornelius Eady -- Ishmael Reed -- Wanda Coleman -- Clarence Major -- Toi Derricotte -- Janice N. Harrington -- Afaa Michael Weaver -- G.E. Patterson.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Robert Hayden -- Myronn Hardy -- Janice N. Harrington -- Frank X Walker -- Lucille Clifton -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- Douglas Kearney -- June Jordan -- Rita Dove -- Claudia Rankine -- C. S. Giscombe -- Margaret Walker -- Ed Roberson -- Evie Shockley -- Sherley Anne Williams -- Indigo Moor -- Marilyn Nelson -- Michael S. Harper.
Camille T. Dungy -- Richard Wright -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Sean Hill -- Janice N. Harrington -- Indigo Moor -- C. S. Giscombe -- Marilyn Nelson -- Stephanie Pruitt -- Gerald Barrax Sr. -- Wanda Coleman -- Ruth Ellen Kocher -- Gregory Pardlo -- June Jordan -- Frank X Walker -- Terrance Hayes -- Audre Lorde -- Remica L. Bingham -- Mark McMorris -- Al Young.
Marilyn Nelson -- Anne Spencer -- Sean Hill -- Nikki Giovanni -- Claude McKay -- Joanne V. Gabbin -- Ross Gay -- George Marion McClellan -- James Weldon Johnson -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Claudia Rankine -- Camille T. Dungy -- Langston Hughes -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Kendra Hamilton -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Margaret Walker -- Tim Seibles.
edited by Camille T. Dungy.
2009
Black nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry
[2020]
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an i
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
Library of America ;
Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- The dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020
ONE: BURY ME IN A FREE LAND 1770-1899. On imagination ; On Recollection ; On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ; To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works ; To His Excellency General Washington / An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston / [Bars Fight] / A Mathematical Problem in Verse / To Eliza ; The Slave's Complaint ; On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom ; Division of an estate ; The Art of a Poet ; George Moses Horton, Myself / An Appeal to Woman ; The Grave of the Slave / Concatination [Selected Pottery Verses, 1834-1862] / The Natives of America ; Reflections / Armand Lanusse: Epigram ; Camille Thierry Ideas ; Pierre Dalcour: Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle _____ ; Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and Devotion/ Les Cenelles -- America ; To Cinque / Hope and Confidence / A Life-Day / The Emigrant / Song for the First of August / A June Song ; A Parting Hymn ; In the earnest path of duty / Toussaint L'Ouverture ; Self-Mastery / from The Rape of Florida ; A Question / The Slave Mother ; Bury Me in a Free Land ; Learning to Read ; A Double Standard ; Songs for the People
TWO: LIFT EVERY VOICE 1900-1918. The House of Falling Leaves / Driftwood / America ; Character or Color--Which? ; Late Mother / Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Prayer ; And What Shall You Say? ; Supplication ; A Woman at Her Husband's Grave / Dr. Booker T Washington to the National Negro Business League / A Litany at Atlanta / We Wear the Mask ; A Negro Love Song ; When Malindy Sings ; When de Co'n Pone's Hot ; An Ante-Bellum Sermon ; Sympathy ; A Death Song ; Compensation / Violets ; I Sit and Sew ; The Proletariat Speaks / The Black Finger ; A Mona Lisa ; El Beso ; You ; Rosabel ; The Eyes of My Regret ; Trees ; Tenebris ; Grass Fingers ; To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké / Wooing ; A Spade Is Just a Spade ; Here and Hereafter / Retrospect / When I Die ; The Lonely Mother ; Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn? ; from African Nights / Lift Every Voice and Sing ; Sence You Went Away ; O Black and Unknown Bards ; My City ; Go Down Death / from The Fledgling Poet and the Poetry Society / Ode to the Sun / To a Little Colored Boy / The New Negro
THREE: THE DARK TOWER 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ; Negro Woman ; Effigy / Heritage ; Lines written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas ; Fantasy ; To a Dark Carl ; Dirge for a Free Spirit ; I Build America ; Epitaph / The Return ; A Black Man Talks of Reaping ; Southern Mansion ; The Day-breakers / Ma Rainey ; Old Lem ; Slim Greer ; Strange Legacies ; Southern Cop ; To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden ; Let Us Suppose / Portraiture ; Black Baby ; Impressions from a Family Album ; Coveted Epitaph ; Denial ; Idle Wonder / Longings ; Goal ; Farewell ; Having Had You ; Four Poems--After the Japanese ; For a New Mother ; I Look at Death / Yet Do I Marvel ; Incident ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Heritage ; from Epitaphs ; From the Dark Tower ; Uncle Jim ; Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song / No Images ; Nineteen-twenty-nine ; My Lord, What a Morning ; Down-Home Boy ; Carry Me Back / The Mask ; Solace / Dead Fires ; La Vie C'est la vie ; Oblivion / My Last Name / Notes Found Near a Suicide / The Negro Speaks of Rivers ; The Weary Blues ; Mother to son ; Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret ; Beale Street Love ; Cross ; Personal ; Midwinter Blues ; Bound No'th Blues ; Dream Variations ; I, Too ; Song for a Dark Girl ; Let America be America Again ; from Montage of a Dream Deferred ; Madam and the Rent Man ; from Ask Your Mama / The Singer ; The Maestro / The Heart of a Woman ; Cosmopolite ; Black Woman ; Old Black Men ; Common Dust ; I Want to Die While You Love Me ; Interracial / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem ; Invocation / Jamaica Market / Christmas in de Air ; The Harlem Dancer ; Harlem Shadows ; If We Must Die ; On Broadway ; The Tropics in New York ; The Lynching ; America ; My Mother ; "The white man is a tiger at my throat" / Man and Maid / Shadow / Requiem ; This Is My Vow / October Prayer ; Flag Salute / Black and Blue ; The Tree of Hope / At the Carnival ; White Things ; Sybil Warns Her Sister / Five Vignettes ; Her Lips Are Copper Wire ; from Cane ; from Essentials ; Be with Me
FOUR: BALLADS OF REMEMBRANCE 1936-1959. To Satch (American Gothic) ; Nat Turner or Let Him Come ; If the Stars Should Fall / Narrative ; Night and a Distant Church ; It's Here in The ; Spyrytual / from A Street in Bronzeville ; Beverly Hills, Chicago ; The Bean Eater ; We Real Cool ; A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon ; The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till ; The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock ; The Lovers of the Poor ; Malcolm X ; The Second Sermon on the Warpland ; Paul Robeson ; The Life of Lincoln West ; The Boy Died in My Alley ; Infirm ; I Am a Black ; An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct / To Julia de Burgos ; Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress ; Poem of the Unborn Child ; Farewell in Welfare Island ; The Sun in Welfare Island / The Small Bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's Attic / from Ebony Under Granite ; Mojo Mike's Beer Garden ; Four Glimpses of Night / Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One ; The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Six Little Black Davids Tapped Danced Unto / Those Winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle Passage ; Runagate Runagate ; A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; [American Journal] / The Truth ; Jazz Is My Religion ; The Nice Colored Man / Hawk Lawler: Chorus ; I, Too, Know What I Am Not ; Would You Wear My Eyes? ; War Memoir ; Walking Parker Home ; Crootey Songo ; Heavy Water Blues ; Blues for Hal Waters ; Oregon / from Dark Testament ; Prophecy / A Private Letter to Brazil ; Review from Staten Island ; Man White, Brown Girl and All That Jazz / Young Poet / Harlem Dawn ; A Definition ; Jean-Jaques / Booker T. and W.E.B. ; An Answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire On a Name for Black Americans ; A Poet Is Not a Jukebox / Ballad of American Mores ; Face of Poverty / Dark Symphony ; from Harlem Gallery, Book I: The Curator / For My People ; Molly Means ; October Journey / Between the World and Me ; Selected Haiku
FIVE: IDEAS OF ANCESTRY 1959-1975. Still I Rise ; Phenomenal Woman / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ; Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ; Notes for a Speech ; The Liar ; Short Speech to My Friends ; Three Modes of History and Culture ; SOS ; Black Art ; Why's 12 / King: April 4, 1968 / Blues ; All God's Chillun ; The White River ; Sam Lord / "in the inner city" ; miss rosie ; good times ; admonitions ; "being property once myself" ; the lost baby poem ; from some jesus ; cutting greens ; homage to my hips ; "the light that came to lucille clifton" ; jasper texas 1998 ; why some people be mad at me sometimes ; "i am accused of tending to the past" ; Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ; study the masters ; to my last period ; wishes for sons ; "surely i am able to write poems" ; "won't you celebrate with me" / How Long Has Trane Been Gone ; Orisha ; Rape ; Jazz Fan Looks Back / Son of Msippi ; Black Star Line ; Outer Space Blues / I Am a Black Woman / I Would Be for You Rain / High on the Hog / Black Power ; Nikki-Rosa ; For Saundra ; Ego Tripping ; A Poem for Carol ; Legacies / American History ; Dear John, Dear Coltrane ; Nightmare Begins Responsibility ; Reuben, Reuben ; Tongue-Tied in Black and White ; Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ; The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass / Do Nothing till You Hear from Me ; A Coltrane Memorial / Medicine Man / What Would I Do White? ; These Poems ; I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies ; Poem about My Rights ; Poem for Haruko / Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself ; For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers / A Poem for Myself ; The Idea of Ancestry ; The Bones of My Father ; Haiku ; For Freckle-Faced Gerald ; The Violent Space ; Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ; For Eric Dolphy ; Feeling Fucked Up / On Being Head of the English Department / Coal ; Revolution Is One Form of Social Change ; A Litany for Survival ; Power ; Lunar Eclipse ; Inheritance--His / But He Was Cool ; Don't Cry, Scream / Swallow the Lake ; Hair / Malcolm X--An Autobiography ; Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat / 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man / Howlin Wolf ; Big Maybelle / Beware: Do Not Read This Poem ; Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ; The Reactionary Poet / sonnet ; poll ; the poor houses ; othello jones dresses for dinner ; American Jazz Quartet / how i got ovah / for our lady ; A Poem for My Father ; A poem for my brother ; from Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ; haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ; haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ; two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ; tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ; haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ; haiku ("man. you write me so") ; tanka ("like dark old men the") ; haiku ("like ermine when i") ; haiku ("i want to make you") ; blues ; Song No. 2 / Whitey on the Moon ; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ; Home Is Where the Hatred Is / After Vallejo / Inauguration ; Song / One for Charlie Mingus ; Poem for My Father ; After Hearing a Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions / A Far Cry from Africa ; Codicil ; Blues ; from The Schooner Flight ; Sea Canes ; Volcano ; Easter ; from Omeros: Chapter VIII / Women / blues for franks wooten ; from Maumau American Cantos: Canto 4 / How Stars Start ; Dance of the Infidels ; Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ; The Old O.O. Blues ; A Poem for Players
SIX: BLUE LIGHT SUTRAS 1976-1989. Twenty-Year Marriage ; I Can't Get Started ; Two Brothers ; The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 / from Haiti / Titta / Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ; Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson / from Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra / What It Means to Be Dark ; Mastectomy ; from American Sonnets / Harriet in the Promised Land / Blackbottom ; The Weakness ; On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ; Black Boys Play the Classics / Leaving Eden ; from The Arcanum Poems ; Father / Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves ; Turning Forty in the 90's ; Wednesday Mourning ; Heartbeats / The House Slave ; David Walker (1785-1830) ; Adolescence--II ; Banneker ; from Thomas and Beulah ; Canary ; The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ; Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ; from Sonata Mulattica / The Dance ; The Supremes ; from Brutal Imagination / Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989 ; Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate / Some Pieces ; Hand Me Down Blues ; Dark Mirror / This Bridge Across ; Time with Stevie Wonder in It ; Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation / Vernacular Examples ; Palaver ; Sotto Voce / For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) ; For Claude McKay / Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ; Goldsboro Narrative #28 ; Goldsboro Narrative #33 ; Goldsboro Narrative #7 ; Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son / Heavy Corners ; Civil Servant ; For My Own Protection / "C"ing in Colors: Blue / Surplus Future Imperfect ; Woman, with wings ; Should you find me / Deep Song / i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain / Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ / from The Women of Plums / Annabelle ; More Girl Than Boy ; Letter to Bob Kaufman ; Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel ; February in Sydney ; from Dien Cai Dau ; Venus's-flytraps ; My Father's Love Letters ; Anodyne ; Ode to the Maggot / Falso Brilhante ; Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 / Gra'ma ; Try to Understand Papa ; Throwing Stones at the All White Pool ; Fade to Black / Life in a Sterile Environment: A Case Study ; The Day before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ; A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ; An Anointing ; Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida ; The Lynching / from Muse & Drudge ; from Sleeping with the Dictionary / A Strange Beautiful Woman ; Sleepless Nights ; Lonely Eagles ; Star-Fix / How I Became the Blues / The Broken English Dream / The Black Back-Ups / All the Way Home ; from Dreamer / Trying for Fire / from for colored girls who have considered suicide / Building Nicole's Mama ; Don't Drink the Water / from Free! / Inside the Blues Whale ; Scrapple ; Washing the car with My Father ; John Henry Sleeping in High Grass / from Letters to a New England Negro
SEVEN: PRAISE SONGS FOR THE DAY 1990-2008. Blue ; The New Religion / The Venus Hottentot ; Nineteen ; Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder ; Ars Poetica #100: I Believe ; Praise Song for the Day / loose strife ; Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire / Verbal Mugging / Prayer of the Backhanded ; Bullet Points ; 'N'em ; Another Elegy ; The Tradition / A Balance of Blues & Angels / nap-i-ness / Natural ; Black Funk / Wednesday Poem / Frequently Asked Questions #10 / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding ; Salt / burial ; A Small Needful Fact / Santa Ana of Grocery Carts ; Teeth ; Ode to the Little "r" / Seeing the Body / Black Mary Integrates the School House / Touch ; Satchmo Returns to New Orleans ; The Golden Shovel ; Carp Poem / How to Listen ; Euphoria ; Ferguson / The Gospel of Barbecue / Charity on Blind Tom ; General Bethune on Blind Tom ; Blind Boone's Vision ; Minnehaha / Jesse Owens, 1963 ; Rope / Thirty Lines About the Fro ; My Father's Kites / Drop it Like It's Hottento Venus / Hostage / Plantation ; from Voyage of the Sable Venus ; "Lucy Terry Prince Prepares for Her Marriage" / Ode to the Diasporican / from Good Stock Strange Blood / from The Big Smoke ; Robot Music / What the Oracle Said / The Keepin' It Real Awards / Blackout 1977 / gayl jones ; cecil taylor ; johnny cash ; I ran from it but was still in it / On Confessionalism / Written by Himself ; Raisin / Bembe-Faced ; Arroz con Son y Clave / Blue ; Cotillion ; A Great Noise ; Speak Low / I want to not have to write another word about who cops keep killing / from Citizen: An American Lyric / The Difficult Music ; The Lucky One ; Hesitation Theory ; My Mother Was No White Dove / from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ; statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ; ode to my blackness / Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? ; The Universe Is a House Party ; Declaration / Offering ; Snow / Ode to Gentrification / Flounder ; Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ; Graveyard Blues ; Pilgrimage ; Miscegenation ; Incident / Strip ; RR Lyrae: Matter / Wind Talker ; Work Ethic / Dissidence ; Gwendolyn Brooks / "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" / Amethyst Rocks / Money Road
EIGHT: AFTER THE HURRICANE 2009-2020. How Can Black People Write about Flowers at a Time Like This / La Negra Takes Medusa to the Hair Salon / Cento Between the Ending and the End / America Will Be / A Postmodern Two-Step / upon viewing the death of basquiat / Massa's House / Nashville / Dear _____, / My First Black Nature Poem(TM) / I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store / Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas / (Afterward) One Corner More / After the Hurricane / Kansas / Kudzu / The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings / One Country / Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face / Closer / #sayhername / The President's Wife / Violins / History / Black Can Sleep / Children Listen / Why Is We Americans / Object Permanence / Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 / Fisherman's Daughter / dinosaurs in the hood / Your National Anthem / Prayer / Ode to Herb Kent
Young, Kevin, 1970- editor.
by Kevin Young --
Phillis Wheatley -- Jupiter Hammon -- Lucy Terry -- Benjamin Banneker -- George Moses Horton -- Sarah Louisa Forten -- David Drake -- Ann Plato -- James M. Whitfield -- Charles L. Reason -- George B. Vashon -- Benjamin Clark -- James Madison Bell -- Charlotte Forten Grimḱe -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray -- Albery A. Whitman -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
William Stanley Braithwaite -- Olivia Ward Bush -- Carrie Williams Clifford -- James D. Corrothers -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Angelina Weld Grimké -- Walter Everette Hawkins -- Josephine D. Heard -- Fenton Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- George R. Margetson -- Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Priscilla Jane Thompson -- Lucian B. Watkins.
Lewis Grandison Alexander -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Arna Bontemps -- Sterling A. Brown -- Anita Scott Coleman -- Mae V. Cowdery -- Countee Cullen -- Waring Cuney -- Clarissa Scott Delany -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Nicolas Guillen -- Frank Horne -- Langston Hughes -- Eva A. Jessye -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Helene Johnson -- Agnes Maxwell-Hall -- Claude McKay -- Myra Estelle Morris -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- Lucia Mae Pitts -- Esther Popel -- Andy Razaf -- Anne Spencer -- Jean Toomer.
Samuel Allen -- Russell Atkins -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Julia de Burgos -- Margaret Danner -- Frank Marshall Davis -- Owen Dodson -- Robert Hayden -- Ted Joans -- Bob Kaufman -- Pauli Murray -- Gloria C. Oden -- Myron O'Higgins -- Oliver Pitcher -- Dudley Randall -- Lucy E. Smith -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Margaret Walker -- Richard Wright.
Maya Angelou -- Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- Gerald Barrax -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Lucille Clifton -- Jayne Cortez -- Henry Dumas -- Mari Evans -- Sarah Webster Fabio -- Julia Fields -- Nikki Giovanni -- Michael S. Harper -- David Henderson -- Calvin Hernton -- June Jordan -- Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Etheridge Knight -- PInkie Gordon Lane -- Audre Lorde -- Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Clarence Major -- Larry Neal -- Raymond R. Patterson -- Sterling D. Plumpp ; From Where the Blues? ; "WE NEED" ; " ; Metagnomy / N. H. Pritchard -- Ishmael Reed -- Ed Roberson -- Carolyn Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Gil Scott-Heron -- A. B. Spellman -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Quincy Troupe -- Derek Walcott -- Alice Walker -- Tom Weatherly -- Al Young.
AI -- Will Alexander -- George Barlow -- Cyrus Cassells -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Wanda Coleman -- Sam Cornish -- Toi Derricotte -- Ralph Dickey -- Melvin Dixon -- Rita Dove -- Cornelius Eady -- Nikky Finney -- Calvin Forbes -- Christopher Gilbert -- C. S. Giscombe -- Lorna Goodison -- Forrest Hamer -- Essex Hemphill -- Safiya Henderson-Holmes -- Erica Hunt -- Gayl Jones -- Patricia Spears Jones -- Sybil Kein -- Dolores Kendrick -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Colleen J. McElroy -- Thylias Moss -- Harryette Mullen -- Marilyn Nelson -- Brenda Marie Osbey -- Pedro Pietri -- Kate Rushin -- Primus St. John -- Tim Seibles -- when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- Patricia Smith -- Sekou Sundiata -- Afaa Michael Weaver -- Sherley Anne Williams.
Chris Abani -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Quan Barry -- Paul Beatty -- Jericho Brown -- Darrell Burton -- Kyle Dargan -- Kwame Dawes -- Joel Dias-Porter -- Camille Dungy -- Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Vievee Francis -- Ross Gay -- Aracelis Girmay -- Rachel Eliza Griffiths -- Duriel E. Harris -- Terrance Hayes -- Major Jackson -- Honorée Fannone Jeffers -- Tyehimba Jess -- A. Van Jordan -- Allison Joseph -- Douglas Kearney -- Daniell Legros Georges -- Robin Coste Lewis -- Mariposa -- Dawn Lundy Martin -- Adrian Matejka -- Shara mcCallum -- Tony Medina -- Tracie Morris -- Fred Moten -- John Murillo -- Gregory Pardlo -- Willie Perdomo -- Carl Phillips -- Khadijah Queen -- Claudia Rankine -- Reginald Shepherd -- Evie Shockley -- Tracy K. Smith -- Sharan Strange -- Samantha Thornhill -- Natasha Trethewey -- Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- Frank X. Walker -- Anthony Walton -- Simone White -- Saul Williams -- Kevin Young.
Hanif Abdurraqib -- Elizabeth Acevedo -- Cameron Awkward-Rich -- Joshua Bennett -- Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Mahogany L. Browne -- Dominique Christina -- Tiana Clark -- DeLana R. A. Dameron -- LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs -- Eve L. Ewing -- Sean Hill -- Notes on a Letter to the Singer Abbey Lincoln from Her Lover, Abraham Lincoln / Harmony Holiday -- Ishion Hutchinson -- Gary Jackson -- Saeed Jones -- Donika Kelly -- Rickey Laurentiis -- Shane McCrae -- Anis Mojgani -- Aja Monet -- Morgan Parker -- Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Camille Rankine -- Justin Phillip Reed -- Roger Reeves -- Alison C. Rollins -- Nicole Sealey -- Charif Shanahan -- Safiya Sinclair -- Danez Smith -- Clint Smith -- Phillip B. Williams -- Jamila Woods.
Kevin Young, editor.
2020
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
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