Medusa's child

Medusa's child [spoken word]

The last hostage

Everything About Her [DVD]

Everything About Her. Tagalog with English subtitles

Ang tanging ina [DVD]

XO Orpheus : fifty new myths

Orpheus : fifty new myths

Fifty new myths

50 new myths

Introduction / Anthropogenesis And Norse Creation Myth : Anthropogenesis, Or: How to Make a Family / Argos : Argos / Bacchantes : Sisters / Baucis And Philemon : Sawdust / Brownies : Friend Robin / Caliph Of One Thousand And One Nights : Veiled Prophet / Candaules And Gyges, As Told By Herodotus : Henry and Booboo / Coyote Myths : Modern Coyote / Cronos : Devourings / Daedalus : Labyrinth / Daedalus : Last Flight of Daedalus / Daphne : Daphne / Demeter : Demeter / Demeter And Persephone : Kid Collins / Eris : Sleeping Beauty / Galatea And Pygmalion : Galatea / God And Satan : Hand / Golem And Pygmalion : Dummy / Hades : Girl with the Talking Shadow / Human Pentachromats : Wait and See / Icarus : Occasional Icarus / Killcrop : Killcrop / Kraken : Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun / Lamia/Child-Eating Demon, Greek : Birdsong from the Radio / Lotus Eaters : Lotus Eaters / Maenads And Sinbad The Sailor : Slaves / Mahabharata : Drona's Death / Monsters : So Many-Headed Gates / Edith Hamilton's Mythology : Status of Myth / Narcissus : Narcissus / Odysseus : Back to Blandon / Odysseus : Story I Am Speaking to You Now / Oedipus : Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt / Orpheus And Eurydice : Dark Resort / Paradise : Mystery Spot: 95065 / Persephone : Lost Lake / Phaeton, From Ovid's Metamorphoses : What Wants My Son / Poseidon : Thousand / Post-Apocalypse : Belle-Medusa / Raja Rasalu : Swan's Wife / Sedna, Inuit : Sanna / Sirin : Madame Liang / Sisyphus : Sissy / Strix : In a Structure Simulating an Owl / Tezcatlipoca : Cat's Eye / Transformation : Betrayal / Trojan Horse : Horse, a Vine / Unconscious : Hungers of an Old Language / Zeus And Europa, After The D'Aulaires : White Horse

Collected poems

Poems

Some notes on my own poetry -- Early poems: Serenade -- Mandoline -- Singerie -- The avenue -- The king of China's daughter -- Bucolic comedies: Early spring -- Spring -- Aubade -- Three poor witches -- Two kitchen songs -- King Cophetua and the beggar maid -- Gardener Janus catches a naiad -- Green geese -- The higher sensualism -- Springing Jack -- Pavane -- When the sailor -- Evening -- Winter -- Spinning song -- Two songs -- The bear -- On the vanity of human aspirations -- The man with the green patch -- The sleeping beauty -- Facade: The drum -- Clowns' houses -- Pere Amelot -- Ass-face -- Said King Pompey -- The bat -- Lullaby for jumbo -- Trio for two cats and a trombone -- Madam mouse trots -- Four in the morning -- Black Mrs. Behemoth -- Came the great Popinjay -- The wind's bastinado -- En famille -- Country dance -- Mariner-man -- The octogenarian -- Bells of gray crystal -- When cold December -- Fox trot -- Polka -- Mazurka -- Jodelling song -- Waltz -- Popular song -- By the lake -- Dark song -- Water party -- The satyr in the Periwig -- I do like to be beside the seaside -- Hornpipe -- Scotch rhapsody -- Something lies beyond the scene -- Sir Beelzebub -- Marine: Why? -- Fireworks -- Switchback -- Minstrels -- Pedagogues -- Portrait of a barmaid -- The drunkard -- Colonel Fantock -- Three rustic elegies: The little ghost who died for love -- The hambone and the heart -- The ghost whose lips were warm -- The madness of Saul (Fragment) -- Elegy on dead fashion -- Metamorphosis: First version, 1929 -- Second version, 1946 -- Romance -- Five songs: Daphne -- The peach tree -- The strawberry -- The greengage tree -- The nectarine tree -- Gold coast customs -- Later poems: 1940-1945: Invocation -- An old woman: I, an old woman in the light of the sun -- Harvest -- Eurydice -- Songs for two voices -- Still falls the rain -- Lullaby -- Serenade: any man to any woman -- Street song -- O yet forgive -- Poor young simpleton: An old song resung -- "I walked with my dead living love in the city."

Song: Once my heart was a summer rose -- Green flows the river of Lethe-O -- A mother to her dead child -- Tattered serenade: Beggar to shadow: These are the nations of the dead -- In the summer, when no one is cold -- The song of the cold -- Tears -- Heart and mind -- Green song -- Anne Boylyne song -- A young girl -- How many heavens ... The flowering forest -- Holiday -- Song: we are the darkness in the heat of the day -- The youth with the red-gold hair -- Girl and butterfly -- Song: The queen gee sighed -- You, the young rainbow -- The poet laments the coming of old age -- 'O bitter love, o death ... -- A sylph's song -- Most lovely shade -- 'Lo, this is she that was the world's desire' -- The swans -- One day in spring -- A song at morning -- The two loves -- Poems 1945-1949: The canticle of the rose: The bee oracles: The bee-keeper -- A sleepy tune -- Mary Stuart to James Bothwell: Casket letter no. 2 -- A bird's song -- Dido's song -- Medusa's love song -- A hymn to Venus -- Spring morning -- Out of school -- A simpleton -- Street acrobat -- Song: Now that fate is dead and gone -- The stone-breakers: a prison song -- The coat of fire -- Three poems of the atomic age: Dirge for the new sunrise -- The shadow of Cain -- The canticle of the rose -- Poems: 1949-1954: Bagatelle -- Gardeners and astronomers -- Three poems on a theme: The road to Thebes: Beside the yellow foam that sings of Lydian airs ... -- Interlude -- The night wind -- Two songs: You said, 'This is the time of the wild spring ... -- The song of the beggar maid to King Cophetua -- Butterfly weather -- The madwoman in the park -- The blinded song-bird near the battlefield -- The wind of early spring -- Sailor, what of the isles? -- The April rain -- Two songs: Prometheus' song -- The queen of Scotland's reply to a reproof from John Knox -- Two songs of Queen Anne Boleyn: The king of nowhere said to me -- At cockcrow -- Of the wise and the foolish -- Song: Where is all the bright company gone? -- A song of the dust.

The collected poems

Poems

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Conversation among the ruins -- Winter landscape, with rooks -- Pursuit -- Bucolics -- Tale of a tub -- Southern sunrise -- Channel crossing -- Prospect -- The Queen's complaint -- Ode for Ted -- Firesong -- Song for a summer's day -- Two sisters of Persephone -- Vanity fair -- Strumpet song -- Tinker Jack and the tidy wives -- Faun -- Street song -- Letter to a purist -- Soliloquy of the solipsist -- Dialogue between ghost and priest -- The glutton -- Monologue at 3 a.m. -- Miss Drake proceeds to supper -- Recantation -- The shrike -- Alicante lullaby -- Dream with clam-diggers -- Wreath for a bridal -- Epitaph for fire and flower -- Fiesta melons -- The goring -- The beggars -- Spider -- Spinster -- Rhyme -- Departure -- Maudlin -- Resolve -- Landowners -- Ella Mason and her eleven cats -- Crystal gazer -- November graveyard -- Black rook in rainy weather -- \tThe snowman on the moor -- Mayflower -- Sow -- The everlasting Monday -- Hardcastle crags -- The thin people -- On the difficulty of conjuring up a dryad -- On the plethora of dryads -- The other two -- The lady and the earthenware head -- All the dead dears -- Natural history -- Two views of Withens -- The Great Carbuncle -- Words for a nursery -- The disquieting Muses -- Night shift -- Ouija -- On the decline of Oracles -- Snakecharmer -- A lesson in vengeance -- Virgin in a tree -- Perseus: the triumph of wit over suffering -- Battle-scene from the comic operatic fantasy the seafarer -- Yadwigha, on a red couch, among lilies -- A winter's tale -- Above the Oxbow -- Memoirs of a spinach-picker -- The ghost's leavetaking -- Sculptor -- Full fathom five -- Lorelei -- Mussel hunter at Rock Harbor -- Moonrise -- Frog Autumn -- In Midas' country -- Incommunicado -- Child's park stones -- Owl -- Whiteness I remember -- Fable of the rhododendron stealers -- The death of myth-making -- Green Rock, Winthrop Bay -- The companionable ills -- I want, I want -- Poems, potatoes -- The times are tidy -- The bull of Bendylaw -- The eye-mote -- Point Shirley -- Goatsucker -- Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows -- A winter ship -- Aftermath -- Two views of a cadaver room -- Suicide off Egg Rock -- The ravaged face -- Metaphors -- Electra on Azalea path -- The beekeeper's daughter -- The hermit at Outermost House -- Man in black -- Old ladies' home -- The net-menders -- Magnolia Shoals -- The sleepers -- Yaddo: the grand manor -- Medallion -- The manor garden -- Blue moles -- Dark wood, dark water -- Polly's tree -- The colossus -- Private ground -- Who -- Dark house -- Maenad -- The beast -- Flute notes from a reedy pond -- Witch burning -- The stones -- The burnt-out spa -- Mushrooms -- You're -- The hanging man -- Stillborn -- On deck -- Sleep in the Mojave Desert -- Two campers in Cloud country -- Leaving early -- Love letter -- Magi -- Candles -- A life -- Waking in winter -- Parliament hill fields -- Whitsun -- Zoo keeper's wife -- Face lift -- Morning song -- Barren woman -- Heavy women -- In plaster -- Tulips -- I am vertical -- Insomniac -- Widow -- Stars over the Dordogne -- The rival -- Wuthering Heights -- Blackberrying -- Finisterre -- The surgeon at 2 a.m. -- Last words -- The moon and the yew tree -- Mirror -- The babysitters -- New year on Dartmoor -- Three women: a poem for three voices -- Little fugue -- An appearance -- Crossing the water -- Among the narcissi -- Pheasant -- Elm -- The rabbit catcher -- Event -- Apprehensions -- Berck-plage -- The other -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Poppies in July -- Burning the letters -- For a fatherless son -- A birthday present -- The detective -- The courage of shutting-up -- The bee meeting -- The arrival of the bee box -- Stings -- The swarm -- Wintering -- A secret -- The applicant -- Daddy -- Medusa -- The jailer -- Lesbos -- Stopped dead -- Fever 103* -- Amnesiac -- Lyonnesse -- Cut -- By candlelight -- The tour -- Ariel -- \tPoppies in October -- Nick and the candlestick -- Purdah -- Lady Lazarus -- The couriers -- Getting there -- The night dances -- Gulliver -- Thalidomide -- Letter in November -- Death & Co. -- Years -- The fearful -- Mary's song -- Winter trees -- Brasilia -- Childless woman -- Eavesdropper -- Sheep in fog -- The Munich mannequins -- Totem -- Child -- Paralytic -- Gigolo -- Mystic -- Kindness -- Words -- Contusion -- Balloons -- Edge -- Bitter strawberries -- Family reunion -- Female author -- April 18 -- Gold mouths cry -- Dirge for a joker -- To Eva descending the stair -- Cinderella -- Jilted -- Bluebeard -- Aquatic nocturne -- Notes to a neophyte -- Metamorphoses of the moon -- Dialogue en route -- To a jilted lover -- The dream -- The trial of man -- April aubade -- Go get the goodly squab -- Trio of love songs -- Lament -- Doomsday -- Moonsong at morning -- Doom of exiles -- The dispossessed -- Admonitions -- Never try to trick me with a kiss -- The dead -- Danse macabre -- Circus in three rings -- Prologue to spring -- Song for a revolutionary love -- Sonnet to Satan -- A sorcerer bids farewell to seem -- Midsummer mobile -- On looking into the eyes of a demon lover -- Insolent storm strikes at the skull -- Denouement -- Two lovers and a beachcomber by the Real Sea -- Black pine tree in an orange light -- Terminal -- Love is a parallax -- Aerialist -- Morning in the hospital solarium -- The Princess and the goblins -- Touch and go -- Temper of time -- Epitaph in three parts.

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Evergreen review.

Dante and the lobster / Cutting edge / Baby Dodds story / Berkeley in time of plague / Psychoanalysis: an elegy / After Budapest / Miserable miracle / October in the railroad earth / A fresh start for fiction / A Coney Island of the mind / Dog / Noretorp Noretsyh / This place, rumord to have been Sodom / Annual in me my manhood / Jackson Pollock / A very important lady / Howl / The photograph of the colonel / Reflections on the Guillotine / A step away from them / Cain's book / Song for a cool departure / The troubled makers / The high bridge above the Tagus river at Toledo / Sappho / Paris la nuit / Horn on Howl / The lordly and isolate satyrs / On Lady Chatterley's lover

City of night / Portrait of an artist with twenty-six horses / The animal that died but his eyes still alive / The three ladies / Exit / Travel with Flora / No more masterpieces / The atom bomb and the future of man / Desire for spring / Childishness / Franz Kline talking / Aspects of Japanese culture / The cold mountain poems of Han-shan / On a certain experience of death / Ode to Jackson Pollock

The life line / Pedro Paramo / W.C. Special / Todos santos, día de muertos / Icefloe / Photograph by Dan Budnik / The spider child of Madras / The 5 day rain / Defense of the freedom to read / The seven deadly sins / Photographs taken at Rodez / A poem for early risers / Three heroes and a clown

Red dirt marihuana / Deposition: testimony concerning a sickness / An analysis of Alain Resnais' film "Hiroshima mon amour" / What is 'pataphysics / Our times / Belles lettres / Foursome / The great magician / Laughter / Letter to Renè Daumal / Danse Mabraque / It droppeth as the gentle rain / A fish's life / Exploits and opinions of Doctor Faustroll, pataphysician / Opus pataphysicum inaugural harangue / Charlie Parker: the burden of innovation / Bank day / The baby / The games of night / Cuba libre / Bertha / Picnic on the battlefield / A new comic style: Arrabal

A talk with Louis-Ferdinand Cèline / How to proceed in the arts / New York Artists -- Naked lunch / The night of the giraffe / The tunnel / Death is a letter that was never sent / And you think you could / Once more on Petersburg / The night before thinking / Comments on "The night before thinking" / Driving with Flora / The big house / In this country of ours / The wide skirt

A pinecone, a toy sheep / Gentleman alone / Pastoral / Stationary point / Folksong / The expelled / Babii Yar / Standing on a street corner / Custom / Historical disquisitions / Truth and being; nothing and time / The noble bandit / Phoebe Zeit Geist: episode 10 pain and ink facing page / The square-shooter and the saint / Medusa in Gramercy Park / One hundred dollar misunderstanding / A life full of holes / A beasts repast / The lovers / Requiem for a princess / Go away, old man, go away / Roberte Ce Soir

Resurrection / About a book named "Tropic" / The death of Sam Spade / A warrant is out for the arrest of Henry Miller / Interview with Andrei Voznesensky / The three-cornered pear / Three Polish tales / The public bath / Behind the brick wall / Recollections of childhood / Houses like angels / Pavan for a dead prince / The unfaithful wife / Sign and ground / Story of O / Hommage á Piaf / Return to the mountains / Trout fishing in America / Edinburgh happening

The funambulists / Crack up / Frost and bite / To all the gardeners / In the egg / The ballad of the black cloud / Notes on Eskimo literature / King Lear or endgame / The trans-Siberian express / Photograph / About evergreen review no. 32 / May Day facing page / Writing for the theatre / Last exit to Brooklyn / Old movies / Harlem summer 1964 / Madame Edwarda / Against interpretation / Mount your horses, workers and peasants! / Workers of the world unite

The addict in the street / Poem for perverts / On the back stairs / I don't want to die / Ad / Pinktoes / Paris in the twenties / Lower case 'n' / The speakers / Gringos / Poverty U.S.A. / Lavish are the dead

The gun / Rhapsody / Tarzan. The government. Refrigerators. / The hole / Mamma Marcia / Prison poems / Waltz dream / Strength and grace / George Grosz' ecce homo / Silhouette by Bob La Vigne / Kral majales

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The Oxford book of New Zealand writing since 1945

Oxford anthology of New Zealand writing since 1945

New Zealand writing since 1945

I have made friends with time ; The return ; Children among the tombstones / Shades of Maro of Toulouse ; Contrast ; Augury / For an amulet ; The estuary ; Tom's a-cold ; Song at summer's end ; Down on my luck ; To a friend in the wilderness / The ruins ; Autumn, Thurlby domain ; Self to self ; Ambulando ; Mountain lily ; from In your presence ; Cry mercy ; Man missing ; Ergo sum ; Shoriken ; Winter anemones / Mushrooms ; The unreturning native ; Rebel and recluse ; A memory of Goose Bay ; Glenmark / O matre pulchra-- ; The disinherited ; Christoph ; Environs of Vanholt I ; The prisoner ; Vineta ; Animae superstiti ; Scott-Moncrieff's Beowulf ; From a book of hours ; 1894 in London ; At dawn ; God save the stock ; Promised land ; Escape ; Remark / At dead low water ; from Tomb of an ancestor. In memoriam, R.L.M.G. ; Old hand of the sea ; Eden gate ; To forget self and all ; Elegy on my father ; The eye is more or less satisfied with seeing ; Keep in a cool place ; Spectacular blossom ; He cracked a word ; A small room with large windows ; from Trees, effigies, moving objects. Lone Kauri Road ; Two pedestrians with one thought ; Magnificat / from An incorrigible music. Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? ; A balanced bait in handy pellet form / from You will know when you get there. A reliable service ; A touch of the hand ; You will know when you get there / Sings Harry ; from Arawata Bill. The crystallised waves ; For myself and a particular woman ; Theocritus viii, 53 / Elegy ; I think of those / Mercury Bay eclogue ; Distilled water ; Scientist's song ; from Pastiches. Mr. Eliot goes to Canterbury ; Mars ascending ; On the exercise of freewill in the lifting of an arm ; Girl, boy, flower, bicycle ; Cinema ; The drunkard and the crane ; Elegy in a city railyard / The hare in the snow ; From Ur to Erewhon ; Then -- and again / The wife speaks ; Sestina ; Put off constricting day / Milking before dawn ; The boy ; from Letter to a Chinese poet. Beating the drum ; Evening ; Viewing the cherry blossom ; Envoy ; Shadow show ; In central Otago ; A warm evening ; An old woman thinks of death ; Reverie ; from Jackinabox / The gap ; Kings of kings ; Cloud burst ; The displacement ; Barbarossa ; Mokau Estuary, 5 a.m., November 1943 ; Upon Westminster Bridge ; Bondage ; The arena ; White goddess ; Words of love ; The staying of the Magi ; An 18th century painting of wildfowl / Memorial to a missionary ; The parakeet ; The grin

Anzac ceremony ; from Considerations. 'High in the afternoon the dove' ; After ; Waikato railstop ; Alarm without excursion ; Parable of two talents ; Hint for the incomplete angler ; Flying to Palmerston ; Reminiscence ; Colville ; Idyll ; The seal in the dolphin pool ; Science fiction / Time and the child ; Burial ; Tangi ; The old place ; Not by wind ravaged ; No ordinary sun ; The girl in the park ; Old man chanting in the dark ; Drunk ; To a Maori figure cast in bronze outside the Chief Post Office, Auckland ; A fall of rain at Miti-Miti / O lung flowering like a tree ; Yet another poem about a dying child ; Rain on the roof ; When the sun shines more years than fear ; Some will be for burning ; Dialogue ; Mother and daughter ; The flowering cherry / August, Ohakune ; Before a funeral ; Scar tissue ; Round Oriental Bay ; The beech tree ; After Chagall ; The names / Hut near desolated pines ; At a fishing settlement ; The return ; from Elegy. Now he is dead ; The laid-out body / Bitter harvest ; from Sanctuary of spirits. Against Te Rauparaha ; Gathering mushrooms ; Why don't you talk to me? ; The gunfighter ; Love song for Meg ; Dreams, yellow lions ; Memo to Mr. Auden, 29/8/66 / In Radcliffe Square, Oxford ; In the fields of my father's youth ; Solstice / Watching snow ; Solo for clarinet / High country weather ; The bay ; To my father ; Elegy for an unknown soldier ; Wild bees ; The morgue ; The fallen house ; The homecoming ; Lament for Barney Flanagan ; My love late walking ; Crossing Cook Strait ; Perseus ; Election 1960 ; Ballad of Calvary Street ; At Taieri Mouth ; Tomcat ; The lion skin ; from Jerusalem sonnets. 1, 2, 18, 27 ; from Autumn testament. 7, 18, 22, 32, 42, 48 ; from Te whiore o te kuri. 7 ; from Five sestinas. Winter in Jerusalem ; The dark welcome / Starlings and history ; For my father ; The journey of Meng Chiao / Birds flying ; Livery stable / The priests of Serrabonne / Whether the will is free ; A natural grace ; A small registry of births and deaths ; from Quesada. 1, 4, 5, 10, 15, 17 ; from Twenty-one sonnets. 2, 9 ; The iceman ; The shadowless man ; Thin partition ; The black one ; The thermostatic man ; The sinful man ; The oracle

Parade : liberation day ; The man in the pool ; Running a risk ; Striking a pose ; Threnody ; Caroline beside the sundial ; A signal to the past ; Auto-da-fe ; from Literary cartoons. A literary tag ; The literary exile ; A serious literary slip ; The literary man observes a window to the sky / The parental bedroom ; Past the tin butterflies and plaster gnomes ; Lines on leaving the last reservation ; House with cat or sun ; The building ; Kumara god ; So many cenotaphs ; The happy army ; Lament for a lost generation / Note on Propertius 1.3 ; Incident ; Wife to husband ; For a five-year-old ; A game ; from Night-piece. Before sleep ; Statues ; Afterwards ; Against coupling ; Please identify yourself ; Script ; Kilpeck ; Art illustration to Dante ; Things ; The Soho Hospital for Women / Medusa ; Interview with Theseus ; Madre de la Vida ; Telling the neighbours ; Resthaven ; Only natural things ; from Butcher, baldy, related matters. Butcher talks on time ; from Brother Jonathan, Brother Kafka. 8, 25, 32, 43 ; In parliament grounds ; On sunny days, a thinker / The tall wind ; Fish and chips on the merry-go-round ; The four last songs of Richard Strauss at Takahe Creek above the Kaipara ; There was a day / Return from Luluabourg ; File de joie : Congo ; A marriage ; Pioneers ; River man ; The moths / Zig-zag up a thistle ; Surprise surprise / Ponsonby/remuera/my lai ; Yellow room ; Lullaby/blazing house / Mission impossible ; Man watching his wife in a play ; Temptations of St. Antony by his housekeeper ; Visiting Juliet Street ; Fr Anselm William and Br Leander Neville-- ; from Casanova's ankle. Casanova's ankle ; Casanova the technician ; Casanova's pied-à-terre ; Casanova and the shop dummy ; Casanova and the residues of indifference / Before the wandering wind finally dies ; My mother spinning ; The nightman ; Thoughts of Jack Kerouac -- & other things ; E flat / The stopover ; Late winter snow ; The initiation ; Trout ; A drive on the peninsula ; Country hotel ; Coming home / A white gentian ; A valley called Moonshine ; School policy on stickmen ; I cried for this man ; Stabat mater ; Every time it rains like this ; Up Battle Hill ; My father today ; Birth of a son / The elaboration ; A death in the family ; The old man's example ; The snow ; The proposition ; The pickpocket ; The song ; A song about the moon ; Children ; An outline / from Earthly : Sonnets for Carlos. 2 for Rose : 9, 10 ; Pathway to the sea / My return to Czechoslovakia ; from Poems of the end wall. House

The undertaker's story ; A final cure / A little gift for Harry ; Another kind of life / Scusi ; An evening for a fish / All part of the game / The quiet one ; Coming and going ; Under the bridge / She's all yours ; It was so late / Blues for Miss Laverty ; Along Rideout Road that summer ; An appetite for flowers / Other gardens / Dossy ; The reservoir ; The bath ; Winter garden ; Insulation ; Two widowers / The will to win ; The loners / One of the Titans / The girl from Kaeo ; Corrective training ; The tree / The morning talk / Black cat / The mace / The losers / Figures in light / A fitting tribute / Duncan / Fog / A way of love ; In it / The silk ; Apple wine / Palms and minarets ; The professional / A way of talking ; Valley ; Between earth and sky / Codling-moth / Mr. Van Gogh ; The master of big jingles / Freedom's ramparts / Big Jim Cook and the wheel of God / After the flood / A game of cards ; Big brother, little sister ; Yellow brick road / Head over heels / The gringos / Hooks and feelers / When bawds and whores do churches build

The Penguin anthology of twentieth-century American poetry

Penguin anthology of 20th century American poetry

Spoon River anthology: Hill ; Fiddler Jones ; Petit, the poet / Miniver Cheevy ; Mr. Flood's party / Creation / Poet ; Life's tragedy / Death of the hired man ; Mending wall ; Birches ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Tree at my window ; Directive / Patterns / Susie Asado ; Tender buttons: A box ; A plate / I sit and sew / Grass ; Cahoots / Peter Quince at the Clavier ; Disillusionment of ten o'clock ; Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ; Anecdote of the jar ; Emperor of ice-cream ; Of mere being / Fragment / Tract ; Danse Russe ; Red wheelbarrow ; Yachts ; Asphodel, that greeny flower Moonlight ; There will come soft rains

Jewel stairs' grievance ; River-merchants' wife : a letter ; In a station of the metro ; Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; Canto LXXXI: "Yet/Ere the season died a-cold") / Sea rose ; Helen ; Walls do not fall: ("An incident here and there") ; Hermetic definition: "Red rose and a beggar" : ("Why did you come") ; ("Take me anywhere--") ; ("Venice--Venus?") / Gale in April ; Shine, perishing republic ; Clouds at evening ; Credo / Fish ; Poetry ; Poetry / Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ; Preludes ; Waste land / If we must die ; Harlem dancer / Ars poetica / First fig ; Recuerdo / in Just- ; Buffalo Bill's ; Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls ; next to of course god america i ; somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond ; r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r / Reapers ; November cotton flower ; Portrait in Georgia / Medusa ; New moon / Dark symphony ; Harlem gallery: Psi ("Black boy, / let me get up from the white man's table--") / Bridge: Proem : to Brooklyn Bridge ; II: Powhatan's daughter: The river / Silent poem

Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; Dream boogie ; Harlem / Incident ; To John Keats, poet, at spring time ; Yet do I marvel ; From the dark tower / Father and son ; Portrait ; Touch me / Musée des Beaux Arts ; Epitaph on a tyrant / My papa's waltz ; Waking ; In a dark time / The Maximus poems : I, Maximus of Gloucester, to you ; Distances / Fish ; Sestina ; First death in Nova Scotia ; Visits to St. Elizabeths ; One art / Mourning poem for the queen of Sunday ; Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass ; Middle passage / Effort at speech between two people ; Then I saw what the calling was ; Poem as mask / Heavy bear who goes with me / The dream songs: ("Filling her compact & delicious body") ; ("Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so") ; ("There sat down, once") ; ("This world is gradually becoming a place") ; Henry's understanding / 90 north ; Death of the ball turret gunner ; Woman at the Washington Zoo ; Next day / For my daughter / Different image / Traveling through the dark ; At the bomb testing site

Scars / For my people / Mother ; Song in the front yard ; Bean eaters ; Lovers of the poor ; We real cool ; Blackstone rangers / "To speak of woe that is in marriage" ; Skunk hour ; For the Union dead / Often I am permitted to return to a meadow ; My mother would be a falconress / Robert Duncan -- Populist manifesto / Parents / Because you asked about the line between prose and poetry / Hyacinth garden in Brooklyn ; August 1945 / Love calls us to the things of this world ; Cottage Street, 1953 ; Writer / Sheep child / Love song : I and thou / "More light! More light!" / Degrees of gray in Philipsburg ; Freaks at Spurgin Road Field / Poem unwritten ; Caedmon ; Swan in falling snow / American poetry / Muse of water / Fresh air ; Permanently

Morning swim ; How it is / Behaving like a Jew ; Dancing ; Another insane devotion / City limits ; Corsons Inlet / Snowfall in the afternoon ; Driving to town late to mail a letter ; Waking from sleep / Flower ; I know a man ; Language ; Rain ; Bresson's movies / Victor dog / Steps ; Poem ("Lana Turner has collapsed!") ; Day Lady died / Some trees ; Self-portrait in a convex mirror ; What is poetry / Bear ; After making love we hear footsteps ; Saint Francis and the sow / Air ; For the anniversary of my death ; Yesterday ; Chord / Blessing ; Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio ; Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota ; In response to a rumor that the oldest whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia has been condemned / My son my executioner ; Digging / Animals are passing from our lives ; They feed they lion ; You can have it ; Simple truth / Her kind ; Abortion ; Wanting to die ; In celebration of my uterus ; Rowing / Orion ; Planetarium ; Valediction forbidding mourning ; Twenty-one love poems: ("The rules break like a thermometer--")

Marriage / Hay for the horses ; Riprap ; Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout / Far cry from Africa ; Sea grapes ; The Schooner : Flight After the storm : "There's a fresh light that follows--") ; Light of the world ; Omeros: ("I sang of quiet Achille, Afolabe's son--") / Let me tell you / Idea of ancestry / Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; Agony. As now. ; SOS ; Black art / Wrong train ; Final sonnet / Power / poem at thirty / Prediction ; Night, the porch / Stone is nobody's / Singapore ; Summer day / Reunion ; Dead color ; California dreaming / homage to my hips ; [at last we killed the roaches] ; death of fred clifton ; to my last period / Poem about my rights / 1968

From my window ; Blades / Mechanic / Dear John, dear Coltrane ; Last affair : Bessie's blues song ; Grandfather ; Nightmare begins responsibility / Stone ; Fork ; Classic ballroom dances / Grandmother / Ellen West / Spring letter ; Two or three wishes / Allegory of the cave ; Tucson / History of my heart ; Questions ; Samurai song / Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat / Introduction to poetry ; Dead / Allen Ginsberg ; Weakness / How to like it ; Lullaby / Song ; Pornographer ; Return of Robinson Jeffers / My life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons / Machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano / But he was cool, or, He even stopped for green lights ; Poem to complement other poems / In memory of the Utah stars ; The accompanist

Language of the brag ; Lifting / Barbed wire / Black silk ; Under stars / I do not / Lost pilot / Elizabeth's war with the Christmas bear ; Funeral / August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Turtle ; Bestiary / Childhood ideogram ; Winter stars / Looking for Judas / People of the other village / Ballad of Aunt Geneva ; Star-fix / Albany / Cuba, 1962 ; Kid ; Finished / Thanks ; Tu Do Street ; Facing it ; Nude interrogation / Song of the Andoumboulou : 21 / Gathering the bones together ; Two lines from the Brothers Grimm ; Origin of the marble forest / Reaching Yellow River / Away

Language lesson 1976 ; What he thought / In cold storm light / Calypso / Latin & soul / Miami heart / Iris / Why Ralph refuses to dance ; Girl friend poem #3 ; Crescent / Taking off my clothes / San Sepolcro / What the living do / She had some horses ; My house is the red earth / Legend / Begotten ; We were simply talking / Imagining their own hymns ; Song / Meeting the British ; Errata ; Throwback / Quinceañera / Parsley ; Daystar ; After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed ; Claudette Colvin goes to work / Our calling / Thinking of Galileo ; Hatred

Unholy sonnet 13 / Traveling onion ; Arabic ; Wedding cake / Nani ; England finally, like my mother always said we would / Nocturne : blue waves ; Unfinished / Field poem ; Oranges ; Black hair / Yellow stars and ice ; Forest / Brilliance ; Esta noche ; Bill's story / Black Nikes / Alcohol / To my brother ; "Love of my flesh, living death" / My wicked wicked ways ; Little clown, my heart / Jack Johnson does the eagle rock ; Crows in a strong wind ; I'm a fool to love you / Indian boarding school : the runaways / Spooning / How I got that name ; Composed near the Bay Bridge Survivor / Youngest daughter / Another reluctance ; Insect / Gift ; Eating together

Our lady ; As from a quiver of arrows / Bag of mice ; Cartoon physics, part 1 / Venus Hottentot ; Affirmative action blues Equinox / White elephants: Million balconies ; Train windows / What the orphan inherits ; Powwow at the end of the world / Hot combs ; Amateur fighter ; Flounder / Tantrum / Spare / Postfeminism ; Your one good dress / Quivira city limits ; Everywhere is out of town ; Whatever you want / At Pegasus ; Lady sings the blues

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