[1968]
[1st ed.]
Book
Lippincott
Book
Native sons; a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors.
Margolies, Edward.
1968
Native sons; a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors.
c2007.
Book
Princeton University Press,
9780691126517
9780691126524
Book
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
The Negro in drama / Reflections on O'Neill's plays / The drama of Negro life / The gift of laughter / Same old blues / The drama of Negro life / The Negro in the field of drama / Has the Negro a place in the theatre? / A criticism of the Negro drama as it relates to the Negro dramatist and artist / From Black Manhattan / The Negro theatre--a dodo bird / A note on African art ; The American Negro as artist ; African art : classic style / Henry Ossawa Tanner / African plastic in contemporary art / The Negro artist and modern art
The new Negro / An appeal to the king / Afro-American education / Heroes and martyrs / The club movement among colored women of America ; The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation / Rough sketches : a study of the features of the new Negro woman ; Rough sketches : the new negro man / An ostracised race in ferment : the conflict of Negro parties and Negro leaders over methods of dealing with their own problem / The new Negro / Returning soldiers / The new Negro and the U.N.I.A. / As to `The new Negro' / The new Negro / The new politics ; Education and the race / The new Negro ; Sterling Brown : the new Negro folk-poet / The new Negro Hokum / Who is the new Negro, and why? / The new Negro as revealed in his poetry ; La Bourgeoisie Noire E. Franklin Frazier / The new Negro in Paris / The rise of the Black internationale / One phase of American literature / [Negro in literature] / The Negro in books / The Negro in literature / The Negro in art : how shall he be portrayed / Some aspects of the Negro interpreted in contemporary American and European literature / The Negro in recent American literature
The younger literary movement / Negro youth speaks / Uncle Tom's mansion / The Aframerican : new style / The Negro renaissance / The Negro renaissance / The Negro literary renaissance / The Negro 'renaissance' / The Negro Renaissance / Our Negro 'intellectuals' / For a Negro magazine / Art and propaganda / Propaganda in the theatre / Criteria of Negro art / Art or propaganda? / Propaganda--or poetry? -- Blueprint for Negro writing
Afro-American women and their work / The value of race literature / The writing of a novel / The Negro in literature and art / Negro literature for Negro pupils / Negro race consciousness as reflected in race literature / Colored authors and their contributions to the world's literature / A point of view (an opportunity dinner reaction) / The Negro digs up his past / A note on the sociology of Negro literature / Negro art, past and present / Survey of Negro literature, 1760-1926 / Race prejudice and the Negro artist / Negro literature / Characteristics of Negro expression / The Negro genius
On a certain condescension in white publishers / The Negro audience / Negro authors must eat / The dilemma of the Negro author ; Negro authors and white publishers / Our literary audience / A Negro writer to his critics / Problems facing the Negro writer today / Some contemporary poets of the Negro race / Dunbar's poetry in literary English / The Negro in poetry / Old school of Negro 'critics' hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar / Negro poets and their poetry / The Negro poets of the United States / Mr. Garvey as a poet
Negro music / The sorrow songs / Negro folk song / The Negro spirituals / The Negro spirituals and American art / Self-portraiture and social criticism in Negro folk-song / Spirituals and neo-spirituals / Whence comes jass? / That mysterious 'jazz' / Jazzing away prejudice ; Where The etude stands on jazz / Jazz at home / From the appeal of jazz / Hot jazz / From Swing that music
Gates, Henry Louis.
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
Rollin Lynde Hartt -- Paul Robeson -- Montgomery Gregory -- Jessie Fauset -- Theophilus Lewis -- Alain Locke -- Rowena Woodham Jelliffe -- Jules Bledsoe -- Eulalie Spence -- James Weldon Johnson -- Ralph Matthews -- Alain Locke -- Jessie Fauset -- Harry Alan Potamkin -- Romare Bearden.
W.E.C. Wright -- J.W.E. Bowen -- Booker T. Washington -- N.B. Wood -- Fannie Barrier Williams -- John Henry Adams, Jr. -- Ray Stannard Baker -- William Pickens -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcus Garvey -- Anonymous -- Geroid Robinson -- Hubert H. Harrison -- Alain Locke -- Gustavus Adolphus Stewart -- J.A. Rogers -- Charlotte E. Taussig -- Claude McKay -- George S. Schuyler -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- The Crisis Symposium -- John Frederick Matheus -- Eugene Clay --
W.E.B. Du Bois -- Alain Locke -- Carl van Vechten -- H.L. Mencken -- Carl van Doren -- Walter White -- Benjamin Brawley -- Lloyd Morris -- Martha Gruening -- Allison Davis -- Claude McKay -- Eric Walrond -- Willis Richardson -- W.E.B. du Bois -- Alain Locke -- Richard Wright --
Katherine Tillman -- Victoria Earle Matthews -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- W.E.B. du Bois -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Robert E. Park -- Irene M. Gaines -- Brenda Ray Moryck -- Arthur A. Schomburg -- Fred Dearmond -- Albert C. Barnes -- Thomas L.G. Oxley -- James Weldon Johnson -- Walter White -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Benjamin Brawley --
Hubert H. Harrison -- Willis Richardson -- George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) -- James Weldon Johnson -- Sterling A. Brown -- Claude McKay -- Eugene C. Holmes -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Charles Eaton Burch -- John Edward Bruce -- Thomas Millard Henry -- Wallace Thurman -- Alain Locke -- T. Thomas Fortune -- James Weldon Johnson --
Paul Laurence Dunbar -- W.E.B. du Bois -- John W. Work -- Alain Locke -- Laurence Buermeyer -- B.A. Botkin -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Walter Kingsley -- Grenville Vernon -- Anonymous -- J.A. Rogers -- R.W.S. Mendl -- Robert Goffin -- Louis Armstrong --
edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett.
2007
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
©2007.
When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the ""New Negro"" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting throu
Electronic resource
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The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
Book collections on Project MUSE.
The new Negro / An appeal to the king / Afro-American education / Heroes and martyrs / The club movement among colored women of America ; The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation / Rough sketches : a study of the features of the new Negro woman ; Rough sketches : the new negro man / An ostracised race in ferment : the conflict of Negro parties and Negro leaders over methods of dealing with their own problem / The new Negro / Returning soldiers / The new Negro and the U.N.I.A. / As to 'The new Negro' / The new Negro / The new politics ; Education and the race / The new Negro ; Sterling Brown : the new Negro folk-poet / The new Negro Hokum / Who is the new Negro, and why? / The new Negro as revealed in his poetry ; La Bourgeoisie Noire E. Franklin Frazier / The new Negro in Paris / The rise of the Black internationale / One phase of American literature / [Negro in literature] / The Negro in books / The Negro in literature / The Negro in art : how shall he be portrayed / Some aspects of the Negro interpreted in contemporary American and European literature / The Negro in recent American literature
The younger literary movement / Negro youth speaks / Uncle Tom's mansion / The Aframerican : new style / The Negro renaissance / The Negro renaissance / The Negro literary renaissance / The Negro 'renaissance' / The Negro Renaissance / Our Negro 'intellectuals' / For a Negro magazine / Art and propaganda / Propaganda in the theatre / Criteria of Negro art / Art or propaganda? / Propaganda--or poetry? -- Blueprint for Negro writing
Afro-American women and their work / The value of race literature / The writing of a novel / The Negro in literature and art / Negro literature for Negro pupils / Negro race consciousness as reflected in race literature / Colored authors and their contributions to the world's literature / A point of view (an opportunity dinner reaction) / The Negro digs up his past / A note on the sociology of Negro literature / Negro art, past and present / Survey of Negro literature, 1760-1926 / Race prejudice and the Negro artist / Negro literature / Characteristics of Negro expression / The Negro genius
On a certain condescension in white publishers / The Negro audience / Negro authors must eat / The dilemma of the Negro author ; Negro authors and white publishers / Our literary audience / A Negro writer to his critics / Problems facing the Negro writer today / Some contemporary poets of the Negro race / Dunbar's poetry in literary English / The Negro in poetry / Old school of Negro 'critics' hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar / Negro poets and their poetry / The Negro poets of the United States / Mr. Garvey as a poet
Negro music / The sorrow songs / Negro folk song / The Negro spirituals / The Negro spirituals and American art / Self-portraiture and social criticism in Negro folk-song / Spirituals and neo-spirituals / Whence comes jass? / That mysterious 'jazz' / Jazzing away prejudice ; Where The etude stands on jazz / Jazz at home / From the appeal of jazz / Hot jazz / From Swing that music
The Negro in drama / Reflections on O'Neill's plays / The drama of Negro life / The gift of laughter / Same old blues / The drama of Negro life / The Negro in the field of drama / Has the Negro a place in the theatre? / A criticism of the Negro drama as it relates to the Negro dramatist and artist / From Black Manhattan / The Negro theatre--a dodo bird / A note on African art ; The American Negro as artist ; African art : classic style / Henry Ossawa Tanner / African plastic in contemporary art / The Negro artist and modern art
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
W.E.C. Wright -- J.W.E. Bowen -- Booker T. Washington -- N.B. Wood -- Fannie Barrier Williams -- John Henry Adams, Jr. -- Ray Stannard Baker -- William Pickens -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Marcus Garvey -- Anonymous -- Geroid Robinson -- Hubert H. Harrison -- Alain Locke -- Gustavus Adolphus Stewart -- J.A. Rogers -- Charlotte E. Taussig -- Claude McKay -- George S. Schuyler -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- The Crisis Symposium -- John Frederick Matheus -- Eugene Clay.
W.E.B. Du Bois -- Alain Locke -- Carl van Vechten -- H.L. Mencken -- Carl van Doren -- Walter White -- Benjamin Brawley -- Lloyd Morris -- Martha Gruening -- Allison Davis -- Claude McKay -- Eric Walrond -- Willis Richardson -- W.E.B. du Bois -- Alain Locke -- Richard Wright.
Katherine Tillman -- Victoria Earle Matthews -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- W.E.B. du Bois -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Robert E. Park -- Irene M. Gaines -- Brenda Ray Moryck -- Arthur A. Schomburg -- Fred Dearmond -- Albert C. Barnes -- Thomas L.G. Oxley -- James Weldon Johnson -- Walter White -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Benjamin Brawley.
Hubert H. Harrison -- Willis Richardson -- George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) -- James Weldon Johnson -- Sterling A. Brown -- Claude McKay -- Eugene C. Holmes -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Charles Eaton Burch -- John Edward Bruce -- Thomas Millard Henry -- Wallace Thurman -- Alain Locke -- T. Thomas Fortune -- James Weldon Johnson.
Paul Laurence Dunbar -- W.E.B. du Bois -- John W. Work -- Alain Locke -- Laurence Buermeyer -- B.A. Botkin -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Walter Kingsley -- Grenville Vernon -- Anonymous -- J.A. Rogers -- R.W.S. Mendl -- Robert Goffin -- Louis Armstrong.
Rollin Lynde Hartt -- Paul Robeson -- Montgomery Gregory -- Jessie Fauset -- Theophilus Lewis -- Alain Locke -- Rowena Woodham Jelliffe -- Jules Bledsoe -- Eulalie Spence -- James Weldon Johnson -- Ralph Matthews -- Alain Locke -- Jessie Fauset -- Harry Alan Potamkin -- Romare Bearden.
edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett.
2007
The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
1970.
Book
New York University Press,
9780814704622
9780814704905
Book
Five Black writers; essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Le Roi Jones,
Gibson, Donald B.
edited with an introd. by Donald B. Gibson.
1970
Five Black writers; essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Le Roi Jones,
McGrath Pub. Co.
Book
To make a poet black
Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders), 1906-1988.
[by] J. Saunders Redding.
1968
1939
To make a poet black
Cornell University Press,
9781501732140
Electronic resource
To make a poet Black
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders), 1906-1988.
J. Saunders Redding ; with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
1988
1939
To make a poet Black
[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
Book
9781598536669
Book
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.
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Legacy, love, learning -- The question of mercy -- Black freedom and the idea(l) of America -- The quest for justice -- Rage and resistance -- Death -- The transformative potential of love -- Joy and something like self-determination -- Cultivating beauty -- Of gardens and grace.
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