Hunting in wartime [DVD]

Discovering the great masters : the art lover's guide to understanding symbols in paintings

Art lover's guide to understanding symbols in paintings

The last judgement / Secrets of the animal world -- The adoration of the Magi / The Arnolfini portrait / The Ghent altarpiece / The Chancellor Rolin Madonna / The annunciaton / The deposition from the cross / Christ mocked / The triumph of Federico da Montefeltro / Portinari altarpiece / St. Jerome in his stuidy / The adoration of the Magi / La primavera (spring) / Marriage of the virgin / Virgin and child enthroned with Saints / The birth of Venus / Madonna della Vittoria / Pallas Athena expelling the vices / The last supper / Mona Lisa / Doni tondo / The garden of earthly delights / The Madonna of the meadow / The school of Athens / Mars and Venus / The three philosophers / The adoration of the trinity / The Isenheim altarpiece / A banker and his wife / Bacchanal of the andrians / The last judgment / The enigmas of architecture -- Madonna and child / The French ambassadors / A Christian Allegory / Decoding flowers and fruit -- Allegory of immortality / St. Luke painting the virgin / Fight between carnival and lent / Allegory of vanity / Burial of the Count of Orgaz / Feast in the house of Levi / The calling of St. Matthew / Apelles paints campaspe / Allegory of sight / Minerva's victory over ignorance / The education of Marie de' Medici / The artist's studio / Time vanquished by hope and beauty / Fortitude brings peace and plenty / The consequences of war / Eucharist in fruit wreath / Vanitas (self portrait) / The banquet of the bean king / The spinners (the fable of Arachne) / In luxury, look out / The gathering of manna / In Ictu Oculi (in the twinkling of and eye) / Las Meninas / The art of painting / The secret language of myth -- The spell / Liberty leading the people / The apotheosis of Homer / Jupiter and Semele

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