New Negro poets, U.S.A.
Title:
New Negro poets, U.S.A.
JLCTITLE245:
Edited by Langston Hughes; foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Publication Information:
Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1964]
Physical Description:
127 pages 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780253299376
Series:
General Note:
An anthology of poetry by 37 authors.
"Biographical notes": pages 117-126.
Abstract:
An anthology of poetry by 37 authors.
Added Author:
Contents:
I. This morning / Jay Wright -- Love song / Samuel Allen -- Point of no return / Mari Evans -- And fall shall sit in judgment / Audre Lorde -- Treehouse / James A. Emanual -- If there be sorrow / Mari Evans -- Mortality / Naomi Long Madgett -- Three kings / James P. Vaughn.
II. Far from Africa / Margaret Danner -- Award / Ray Durem -- It is time / Ted Joans -- My America / Oliver La Grone -- This hour / Oliver La Grone -- Bathed is my blood / Oliver La Grone -- Midway / Naomi Long Madgett -- O white mistress / Don Johnson -- Southern road / Dudley Randall -- On passing two Negroes / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Legacy: my south / Dudley Randall -- Still voice of Harlem / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Face of poverty / Lucy Smith -- Map / G.C. Oden.
III. Blues and bitterness / Lerone Bennett -- Beale Street, Memphis / Thurmond Snyder -- Lines to Garcia Lorca / LeRoi Jones -- For lover man, and all the other young men who failed to return from World War II / Mance Williams -- John Coltrane -- an impartial review / Alfred B. Spellman -- Citizen Vilma Howard -- Memorial wreath / Dudley Randall -- Zapata & the landlord / Alfred B. Spellman -- Prayer / Isabella M. Brown -- Movie queen / James P. Vaughn -- Two ladies bidding us "good morning" / James P. Vaughn.
IV. Rotation / Julian Bond -- Year without seasons / Mance Williams -- Noonday April sun / George Love -- Brothers / Solomon Edwards -- Love / Tom Dent -- Stopped / Allen Polite -- Epistrophe / LeRoi Jones -- Each morning / LeRoi Jones -- Dream / Solomon Edwards -- Sketches of Harlem / David Henderson -- Shrine to what should be / Mari Evans -- ... and the old women gathered / Mari Evans -- Come visit my garden / Tom Dent -- Wedding procession / James A. Emanuel -- Shoplifter / Solomon Edwards -- .38 / Ted Joans -- Instantaneous / Vivian Ayers -- Habana / Julian Bond -- Beast with chrome teeth / Thurmond Snyder -- Seeds / Thurmond Snyder -- Review from Staten Island / G.C. Oden -- Private letter to Brazil / G.C. Oden.
V. If the stars should fall / Samuel Allen -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note / LeRoi Jones -- Voyage of Jimmy Poo / James A. Emanuel -- Reflections / Carl Gardner -- Downtown -- boy uptown / David Henderson -- Distant drum / Calvin C. Hernton -- Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton -- Am driven mad / Allen Polite -- Where have you gone ...? Mari Evans -- Pirouette / Audre Lorde -- Four sheets to the wind and a one-way ticket to France / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Plans / Helen Morgan Brooks -- I heard a young man saying / Julia Fields -- Two poems / Robert J. Abrams -- When I awoke / Raymond Patterson -- Pale blue casket / Oliver Pitcher -- Raison d'etre / Oliver Pitcher.