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W.W. Norton
Music scores
Songs of American sailormen,
Abram Brown -- Across the Western Ocean -- Alabama -- Andrew Rose -- A-roving -- Bangidero -- The banks of Newfoundland -- Believe me, dearest Susan -- Billy Riley, O! -- The Black Ball Line -- Blow, boys blow -- Blow the man down Blow, ye winds -- Bold Daniels -- Boney -- Boston -- The Boston come-all-ye -- Bottle O! -- Can't you dance the polka? -- Captain Kidd -- Cheer'ly, man -- Clear the track -- Coast of Peru -- The codfish shanty -- The Constitution and Guerrière -- The countersigns -- The cruise of the Bigler -- Derby ram -- Diego's bold shores -- The Dom Pedro -- The Dreadnaught (Dreadnought) -- Drei Reiter am Thor -- The drunken sailor -- The fair Princess Royal -- Fire down below -- The Flying Cloud -- Franklin's crew -- Galloping Randy Dandy O! -- The girls around Cape Horn -- The Golden Vanity -- Good-bye, fare you well! -- Goodbye, my love, goodbye -- Greenland fishery -- Hanging Johnny -- Haul away, Joe -- Haul on the bowline -- Heave away -- Her bright smile -- High Barbaree -- Highland laddie -- The hog-eye man -- Home, Dearie, home -- Huckleberry hunting -- A hundred years on the eastern shore -- In de mornin' -- The Jamestown homeward bound -- John Cherokee -- Johnny Boker -- Johnny come down to Hilo -- Juley -- King Edwards -- The lass of Mohea -- Leave her, Johnny -- Liza Lee -- A long time ago -- Lowlands -- Mademoiselle from Armentières -- Mobile Bay -- Old sailor's song -- One more day -- Paddy Doyle -- Paddy get back -- Paddy works on the railway -- The Persia's crew -- Poor old man -- Le retour du marin -- Reuben Ranzo -- Rio Grande -- The River Lea -- Rocks in de mountens -- Roll the cotton down -- Rolling down to Old Maui -- Rolling king -- Round the corner -- Row, bullies, row -- Rules of the road -- Run with the bullgine -- Sacramento -- Sailors' "come-all-ye" -- The sailor's grave -- Sally Brown -- Santy Anna -- Shallo Brown -- Shenandoah -- The Shenandoah -- Sindbad -- Sing Sally O! -- Slav ho! -- Snapoo -- So handy -- The stately Southerner -- Stormalong -- Ten thousand miles away -- There she blows! -- Tom's gone to Hilo -- Up she goes -- Whiskey Johnny -- Ye Parliament of England -- You gentlemen of England.
Colcord, Joanna C. (Joanna Carver), 1882-1960, editor.
by Joanna C. Colcord, with an introd. by Lincoln Colcord.
1938
Songs of American sailormen,
H87-78-13 Bessie Henry talks about Cutoff, Sam Dubin, Fred Bifelt, fishing on the Hogatza River, trapping mink, Edwin Simon, Little Sammy, Jimmy
Audio cassette
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Audio cassette
Bessie Henry is interviewed by Wendy Arundale, A.J. Lynch, and Alfred Starr with Catherine Attla translating on November 10-11, 1982 in Huslia, Alaska [sound recording].
Doyon Historic Sites Project tapes
Henry, Bessie.
Arundale, Wendy Hanford, 1945-
Lynch, Alice J.
Starr, Alfred.
Attla, Catherine.
1982
Bessie Henry is interviewed by Wendy Arundale, A.J. Lynch, and Alfred Starr with Catherine Attla translating on November 10-11, 1982 in Huslia, Alaska [sound recording].
H87-78-03 Sidney Huntington talks about the Hog River, the post office at Clear Creek, why the Hogatza River is called the Hog River, gold on the
Audio cassette
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Audio cassette
Sidney Huntington is interviewed by Wendy Arundale ... [et al.] on November 16, 1982 in Galena, Alaska [sound recording].
Doyon Historical Sites Project tapes.
Huntington, Sidney.
Arundale, Wendy Hanford, 1945-
1982
Sidney Huntington is interviewed by Wendy Arundale ... [et al.] on November 16, 1982 in Galena, Alaska [sound recording].
H86-05-01 Joe and Celia Beetus talk with Wendy Arundale about sections of the Preliminary report, Doyon historic sites project-- Koyukuk area. Jo
Audio cassette
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Audio cassette
Joe and Celia Beetus discuss historic sites with Wendy Arundale in Fairbanks, Alaska on November 14, 1985 [sound recording].
Doyon Historic Sites Project tapes
Beetus, Joe.
Beetus, Celia
Arundale, Wendy Hanford, 1945-
1985
Joe and Celia Beetus discuss historic sites with Wendy Arundale in Fairbanks, Alaska on November 14, 1985 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
Joe and Celia Beetus talk about their personal backgrounds, their families, songs, and their subsistence lifestyle.
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Sound recording
Joe and Celia Beetus are interviewed by Wendy Arundale on November 15, 1992 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
Beetus, Joe.
Beetus, Celia, narrator.
Arundale, Wendy Hanford, 1945-, interviewer.
1992
Joe and Celia Beetus are interviewed by Wendy Arundale on November 15, 1992 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
On H93-15-03, Lindberg and Lydia Bergman talk about their personal backgrounds, their parents and relatives, their marriage and children, their s
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Sound recording
Lindberg and Lydia Bergman are interviewed by Wendy Arudale on November 23, 1992 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
Bergman, Lindberg, 1929-
Bergman, Lydia, 1931- , narrator.
1992
Lindberg and Lydia Bergman are interviewed by Wendy Arudale on November 23, 1992 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
Effie and William William talk about their personal backgrounds, the missions, William's work hauling freight and working for Wien Alaska Airline
Sound recording
JLC Title 245h
[sound recording].
Sound recording
Effie and William William are interviewed by Wendy Arundale on November 20, 1992 [sound recording].
National Park Service collection - Gates of the Arctic
William, Effie Ned, 1919-
William, William Isaac, 1916-
Arundale, Wendy Hanford, 1945-, interviewer.
1992
Effie and William William are interviewed by Wendy Arundale on November 20, 1992 [sound recording].
[©1969]
[1st ed.].
Music scores
C.N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers
Music scores
Cowboy and western songs; a comprehensive anthology.
Shenandoah -- The buffalo hunters -- The wild rippling water -- A hunting tale -- Old Rosin the beau -- The wagoner's lad -- Bonny black Bess -- Squeball -- Johnny cake -- Rigby Johnson Chandler -- Root hog or die -- Joe Bowers -- Ox driving song -- A ripping trip -- The California brothers -- Steamboat Bill -- That is even so -- The Wells and Fargo line -- Sweet Betsey from Pike -- Freighting from Wilcox to Globe -- Whoa! ha! buck and Jerry boy -- The Lane County bachelor -- Dakota land -- The dreary Black Hills -- The little old sod shanty -- St. George and the drag-on -- Hell in Texas -- Idyl of the plains -- When I was a cowboy -- The hills of Mexico -- The Texas cowboy -- In Kansas -- My ma was born in Texas -- Clementine -- Cowboy boasters -- Life in a prairie shack -- Punchin' dough -- Blood on the saddle -- The lavender cowboy -- The Indian's death song -- Haunted wood -- Fair lady of the plains -- Sioux Indians -- Texas Jack -- Custer's last charge -- Billy Veniro -- Little Mohea -- Belle Brandon -- Mustang gray -- Red wing -- Juanita -- Border affair -- Going west -- Lily of the west -- Where the bravest cowboys lie -- Red River Valley -- Red River shore -- Down in the valley -- Roving cowboy -- Bucking broncho -- Powder river.
The girl I left behind me -- My parents raised me tenderly -- The girl that wore a waterfall -- No use for the women -- The trail to Mexico -- Pattonio -- The strawberry roan -- Chopo -- Powderhorn -- The educated feller -- The tenderfoot -- The moonshine steer -- Tying knots in the devil's tail -- Windy Bill -- Git along little dogies -- Railroad corral -- The old Chisholm trail -- Little Joe the wrangler -- Utah Carl -- When the work's all done this fall -- Lay down little dogies -- Old Paint -- The poor lonesome cowboy -- Doney gal -- The cowboy's life -- Wee little Piute -- Blue mountain -- Cowboy's home sweet home -- Curtains of night -- Bring him back dead or alive -- I've been all around this world -- Jesse James -- Cole Younger -- Sam Bass -- Billy the Kid -- Queen of the desperadoes -- Shoot the buffalo -- Skip to my lou -- Up and down the railroad track -- Buffalo gals -- Red River gal -- Bunkhouse orchestra -- The high-toned dance -- At a cowboy dance -- Snagtooth Sal -- Ragtime Cowboy Joe -- Home on the range -- The cowboy's ride -- The old cowboy -- Cattle call -- The Pecos punchers -- -- Way out in Idaho -- Lone Star trail -- The last longhorn -- Cowboy again for a day -- The dying cowboy -- The dying outlaw -- The streets of Laredo -- The dying cowboy of Rim Rock Ranch -- Cowboy's meditation -- The grand roundup -- The cowboy's soliloquy -- The glory trail -- The hell-bound train -- The cattleman's prayer -- The buffalo range -- A cowboy's prayer.
Fife, Austin E., compiler.
Fife, Alta (Alta Stevens), 1912-1996, compiler.
Schwab, Mary Jo, editor.
Ralston, J. K., 1896-1987.
Edited by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. Music editor: Mary Jo Schwab, with illus. by J.K. Ralston.
1969
Cowboy and western songs; a comprehensive anthology.
Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
Music scores
Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads
111 best American ballads
Buckeye Jim ; All the pretty little horses ; Go tell Aunt Nancy ; Leatherwing bat ; Grey goose ; Mister Rabbit ; Old blue ; Ground hog ; Springfield Mountain ; I was born about ten thousand years ago -- When you go a-courtin' : The Texian boys, II ; Lolly-too-dum ; When I was single : I and II ; The sporting bachelors ; Jennie Jenkins ; Black, black ; Come all you fair and tender ladies ; Old smoky ; Down in the valley ; Careless love ; Dink's song ; Easy rider : See, see, rider ; Shorty George -- Sourwood Mountain ; Old Joe Clark : Round and round Hitler's grave ; Raise a rukus ; Old Dan Tucker ; Cindy ; Black-eyed Susie ; Skip to my Lou ; Coffee grows on white oak trees / Shoot the buffalo ; Buffalo gals ; Sweet thing -- Johnny has gone for a soldier ; Brave Wolfe ; John Brown's body ; Mademoiselle from Armentières ; Gee, but I want to go home -- Santy Anno ; Shenandoah ; Sacramento / Lowlands / Blow, ye winds in the morning / The E-ri-e ; The bigler ; Rock about my Saro Jane.
Once more a-lumb'ring go / Blue Mountain Lake / The jam on Gerry's rocks ; A lumberman in town / The buffalo skinners ; Sweet Betsy from Pike ; The days of '49 / The old settler's song ; Down, down, down / The old Chisholm Trail : I and II ; Git along, little dogies ; The streets of Laredo ; Bury me not on the lone prairie ; The cowboy's dream ; Home on the range ; Old paint : I and II ; Rye whiskey ; Red River Valley -- The young man who wouldn't hoe corn ; Whoa, buck! ; Pick a bale of cotton ; The boll weevil ; Starving to death on a govenment claim ; The state of Arkansas ; Goin' down the road feelin' bad.
Nine hundred miles / John Henry : I and II ; Casey Jones : I and II / Paddy works on the Erie ; O, Lula! / Can'cha line 'em ; The Big Rock Candy Mountains -- Jesse James ; Sam Bass ; Tom Dooley / Down in the willow garden ; Pretty Polly ; John Hardy ; Po' Laz'us ; Darlin' Corey ; Frankie and Albert ; Take a whiff on me ; The Durant jail : Hard times, poor boy ; De midnight special ; Ain' no mo' cane on dis brazis ; Take this hammer ; Almost done ; Another man done gone -- Amazing grace / Poor wayfaring stranger ; Wondrous love ; Bound for the Promised Land / Lonesome Valley ; Po' li'l' Jesus ; Never said a mumbalin' word ; Soon one mornin' ; When my blood runs chilly and col' ; Set down, servant ; Gret gittin' up mornin' ; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ; Freedom ; Go down, Moses ; Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho ; Keep your hand on the plow.
Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948, arr.
Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002, compiler.
Seeger, Charles, 1886-1979, arr.
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953, joint arr.
words and melody collected by B.A. Botkin ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Joanna Colcord ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Joanna Colcord ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Joanna Colcord ;
words and melody adapted and arranged by E.C. Beck ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Frank Warner ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Philips Barry ; words and melody adapted and arranged by the Lomaxes and Frank Warner ; words and melody by William Keating --
words and melody adapted and arranged by the Lomaxes and Woody Guthrie ; words and music by Newton and Siebert ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Zora Neale Huston and the Lomaxes ; words and melody adapted and arranged by Frank Warner ; melody transcribed by George Pullen Jackson ; melody transcribed by George Pullen Jackson ;
collected, adapted and arranged by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax. Alan Lomax, editor, Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger, music editors.
1947
Folk song: U.S.A. : the 111 best American ballads
1943.
2d ed., rev. and enl., with a new introduction.
Music scores
A.A. Knopf,
Music scores
A treasury of American song
Who is the man? -- Confess Jehovah -- Rosa -- Lowly Bethlehem -- Barbara Allen -- Tom Bolynn -- Springfield mountain -- Captain Kidd -- Locks and bolts -- Hangsaman -- My days have been so wondrous free -- When Jesus wept -- Brave wolfe -- The liberty song -- What a court hath old England -- Yankee doodle -- Chester -- Bunker Hill (the American hero) -- Paul Jones' victory -- Ode to the fourth of July -- Ode on science -- David's lamentation -- Putney hymn -- The bee -- Jefferson and liberty -- Blow, boys, blow -- Cape Cod girls -- Blow the man down -- The Boston come-all-ye -- Lowlands -- Shenandoah (the wide Missouri) -- Rio Grande -- A dollar and a half a day -- The hunters of Kentucky -- Star of Columbia -- El-a-noy -- The unconstant lover -- Way down the Ohio -- The jolly wagoner -- Poor wayfaring stranger -- When Adam was created -- The promised land -- The saint's delight -- Wondrous love -- Through all the world -- Weevily wheat -- Shoot the buffalo -- Skip to my Lou -- Swing on the corner -- Welcome every guest -- Old Dan Tucker -- Lubly fan -- Old zip coon (turkey in the straw) -- Walk, jaw-bone -- The burman lover -- Alabado -- Sacramento (de camptown races) -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Joe Bowers -- The dying Californian -- Oh Susanna! -- My old Kentucky home -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Heave away -- Gwine to Alabamy -- Abolitionist hymn -- Link o'day -- Lincoln and liberty -- Battle hymn of The Republic (John Brown's body) -- Dixie -- Abraham's daughter -- Tenting to-night -- When Johnny comes marching home -- All quiet on the Potomac -- Weeping sad and lonely (when this cruel war is over) -- Slav'ry chain (Joshua fit de battle) -- Year of jubilo (kingdom come) -- Go down Moses -- Didn' my Lord deliver Daniel? -- Deep river -- The gospel train -- Never said a mumbalin' word -- Little David -- This is a sin-tryin' world -- Blind man -- The chickens are a-crowing -- When boys go a-courting -- I must and I will get married -- If you want to go a-courting -- He's gone away -- I'm sad and I'm lonely -- The lonesome grove -- Dandoo -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- The single girl -- Go to sleepy -- Itiskit Itaskit -- Bye baby bunting -- Little Sally Sand -- It's raining, it's pouring -- Here come three merchants a-riding -- Old woman all skin and bone -- The birds' courting song -- Barnard song -- Frog went a-courtin' -- Sourwood mountain -- Old Joe Clarke -- Cindy -- Darling Cora -- Ground hog -- Careless love -- Way up on old smoky -- Kentucky moonshiner -- Rye whiskey (clinch mountain) -- Everybody's welcome -- O death -- Cowboy's getting'-up holler -- The Chisholm trail -- Night-herding song -- I ride an old paint -- The railroad corral -- Good-bye, old paint -- Bury me not on the lone prairie -- A shantyman's life -- The jolly lumberman -- Pat works on the railway -- State of Arkansas -- Look over yonder -- The farmer comes to town -- The ballad of the boll weevil -- Teamster's song -- Goin' up the river -- I lived in a town -- The Erie Canal -- Barber's cry -- Charcoal man -- The shoemaker -- Shine on -- Old Abe Lincoln -- John Henry -- Johnny Appleseed -- John Hardy -- Jesse James -- Red River valley -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Listen to the mocking bird -- Go get the axe -- Little brown jug -- It's the syme the whole world over -- The elephant and the flea -- No more booze -- Frankie and Johnny -- Willie the weeper (Cocaine Lil) -- The roving gambler -- Salangadou -- Ré́mon -- La cucaracha -- De Mexico ha venido -- Schlof, bobbeli -- Me Johnny Mitchell man -- I cathca da plenty of feesh -- On meesh-e-gan -- Finnegan's wake -- The blues ain' nothin' -- Joe Turner blues -- Friendless blues -- Gambler's blues (St. James Infirmary blues) -- Po' boy -- Chilly winds -- Every night when the sun goes in -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum -- The preacher and the slave -- Hinky dinky -- Ah'm broke an' hungry -- Upon de mountain -- Sistern and brethren -- Ku Kluck Klan -- The T.V.A. -- I'm goin' down this road feelin' bad -- Tom Joad -- A new wind a-blowin'.
Downes, Olin, 1886-1955, editor.
Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991.
text by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister; music arranged by Elie Siegmeister.
1943
A treasury of American song
[2013]
"An anthology of American poetry about nature and the environment, divided into a historical section with poetry written from roughly the mid-nin
Book
9781595341464
Book
The ecopoetry anthology
From Song of Myself / Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / #116/328 / #126/348 / #184/465 / #209/520 / #498/1400 / #537/1593 / An Old Man's Winter Night / The Need of Being Versed in Country Things / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Spring Pools / Design / The Most of It / Directive / Sunday Morning / Anecdote of the Jar / The Snow Man / The River of Rivers in Connecticut / Spring and All / The Sea-Elephant / Between Walls / Raleigh Was Right / The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo / The Tree / Salutation / Ancient Music / from Canto LXXXI / Oread / Sea Iris / The Pool / Shine, Perishing Republic / Hurt Hawks / The Purse-Seine / Carmel Point / The Deer Lay Down Their Bones / The Fish / A Grave / The Paper Nautilus / from The Waste Land / I. The Burial of the Dead / III. The Fire Sermon / Me up at does / Reapers / November Cotton Flower / Metropolitan Nightmare / Repose of Rivers / from The Bridge / To Brooklyn Bridge / The River / Riverbank Blues / The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Daybreak in Alabama / (untitled) / from Paean to Place / Toward an Organic Philosophy / Lute Music / Lyell's Hypothesis Again / Andrée Rexroth / from North American Sequence / Meditation at Oyster River / Eclogue / California / Psalm / The Occurrences / The Kingfishers / West Gloucester / At the Fishhouses / The Moose / San Joaquin / Clouds / The Night-Blooming Cereus / from The Book of the Dead / Alloy / The Dam / Traveling through the Dark / At the Bomb Testing Site / Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow / Poetry, a Natural Thing / A Little Language / Santa Fe Trail / The Heaven of Animals / O Taste and See / Souvenir d'amitié / The Past III / Haze / Corsons Inlet / Gravelly Run / from Garbage / Snowshoe Hare / Gone feral: minor gestures / Thing / Natural History / Dusk / Into the Dusk-Charged Air / For John Clare / Alcove / River of the Canoefish / As Children Know
The Place Poem: Sparrow's Point / Living Where They Raised Me / Birdsong from My Patio / The Big Picture / Arcadian / Wawaskwanmiinan / Unit of Measure / The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) / Aspens / After the End After the Beginning / Horses / Water / The Hidden Singer / The Peace of Wild Things / To the Unseeable Animal / The Star Field / from A Context of a Wave / April / 21st Century Lecture / The Dead Seal / Birdsong, face it, some male machine / It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit / The Rapture of Bees / Multi-Use Area / Legacy / from Mermaid's Purse / Outside Fairbanks / Down from the Houses of Magic / A Field of Finches without Sight Still Singing / Freeway 280 / Emplumada / Genealogy / Out with the Monarch, the Vole, and the Toad / The earth is a living thing / The beginning of the end of the world / Grief / Defending my tongue / The killing of the trees / Green Shade / Ruddy Duck / Ecology / m(other) tongue / from Canto for the Birds / Still: Environment / The Rain in Maine / Genocide, Again / Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut / Damascus / House Sparrow at Skara Brae / For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly / On the rocks / The Blue / Pastoral and Gigue / Praxilla's Silliness / I Like Green Things / September 21 65 / June 17 68 / May 3 71 / [trees green the quiet sun] / The Strange People / The Red Sleep of Beasts / Maize / West Texas / Should the Fox Come Again to My Cabin in the Snow / Then / Watching the Oregon Whale / Elegy / from Dream Cabinet / Out of the Field / Plume / Green Run / The Museum of Stones / Morning on the Island / The St. Louis Zoo
Árbol / Historia / An Intermission / Three Sonnets / They Haven't Heard the West Is Over / Cartography / Field Guide to Southern Virginia / from Of Sum / from Giscome Road / Human Memory Is Organic / Scilla / Witchgrass / Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall / Millennial Spring / Evolution / Sea Change / The Cranes / Goldeye, Vole / If the Owl Calls Again / Digging / from She Had Some Horses / My House Is the Red Earth / Eagle Poem / The Sandhill Cranes / Prayer for the Everglades / Palo Alto: The Marshes / Ezra Pound's Proposition / Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow / State of the Planet / Submersible / After My Daughter's Birth, a Late Night Self-Portrait with a Running Mare / Dust: Dad's Days / The Swamp / Blackbird Spring / Practical Water / Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek / A Violet in the Crucible / To Spirits of Fire after Harvest / The Supple Deer / Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight / Articulation: An Assay / Optimism / Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar / Speed and Perfection / For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches' Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen / The Last Crows Whose Cries Are Audible Here / Romantic Moment / Wild / Cove / Turtle Watchers / Moving the Woodpile / Fluff / Skykomish River Running / Ziggurats there aren't here, my Sweethearts / [earthearthearth] / from Spring / 4 Emanations / 5 April 13th / from Summer / What the Earth Told Me / 'Unless the Humming of a Gnat Is as the Music of the Spheres / The Assault on the Fields / Long Drop to Black Water / from Dream of the End / The Leaving / Blessed Is the Field / Windfall / The Bear / Daybreak / Burning the Brush Pile / The Millpond / Blackberries / Dream Animal / Blessing the Animals / Flying at Night / Grasshoppers / The Whole Hog / The Wellfleet Whale / The Orgasms of Organisms / Life Is Beautiful
Hummingbird / Law Office / Tooth of the Lion / They Feed They Lion / Our Valley / The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Anastasia & Sandman / What My Child Learns of the Sea / Migration South / Offering / From Tobacco Mosaic. Stripping Room ; Lexicon ; Drought ; The Sharecroppers / The Origin / Biogeography / Event One / For a Coming Extinction / Vixen / Nocturne / Recognitions / The Laughing Thrush / Eating a Mountain / Bartram's Trail / Connemara Autumn / Driving to Fort Bragg / Grate, Table Grace / From Muse and Drudge / Negotiations with a Volcano / The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong / She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls : Utkiavik / Tulunigraq : Something Like a Raven / Alligator Poem / Wild Geese / The Lilies Break Open over the Dark Water / Love III / Dearest Reader / Notes for Echo Lake 6 / Notes for Echo Lake 9 / The Natural World / Bulletin from Somewhere up the Creek / The Crows Start Demanding Royalties / Shrike Tree / No Bite / Republic / Hand Over Fist / Dark Night of the Hermit / Justice / Monsoon Eclogue / Aesculapius Unbound / Election Year / My Mojave / "Birds Small Enough" / From Twenty-One Love Poems / Power / From The Spirit of Place / What Kind of Times Are These / Beetles and Frogs / Uncovered Ants
Be Careful / Wave / To See the Earth before the End of the World / City Eclogue : Words for It / The Distant Stars as Paparazzi / Geocentric / Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew / Dear Jeffers / Song of Returnings / The Bromeliad / Nature / I've Always Despised the Wetlands / To the Desert / From All with Ocean Views / Ginen Aerial Roots / From Preterrain / From Tidelands / Ambition : Cow & Microphone / First Verse / Runoff / A Dog's Poetry / Fais Do-Do / The Open Secret of the Sea / A Good Fish / Darwin's Eyes / Some Kind of Osiris / Notes for the Early Journey / Atlantis Made Easy / Near the Bravo 20 Bombing Range / Sighted / Caged Bird / Birds of the Holy Lands / Carnegia Gigantea Monadnock / 5 P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005 / Man on the TV Say / Won't Be But a Minute / 8 A.M., Sunday, August 28, 2005 / Looking for Bodies / From Hunting : This Poem Is For Bear / From Burning. The Text ; The Myth / Piute Creek / Milton by Firelight / Riprap / For Nothing / Burning the Small Dead / Wave / For the Children
From Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache / Cow Worship / One Animal's Life / Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals / The Forest / Midnight Oil / An Entangled Bank / First Lessons in Beekeeping / The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence / From Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers / No Golden Fish Were Harmed in the Making of This Poem / From Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge / Refrain / City Animals / Snow Goose Migration at Tule Lake / The Badlands Said / The River at Wolf / Rain / Chameleon / Cow / Forest Orison / Canning Memories / Ox Herding Lesson / Man in Stream / The Stars / Bamboo / The Petroglyphs at Puakō / Tar / Blackbird / Canal / Not Soul / Johnny Appleseed Contemplates Heaven / Song of the Gourd / From Deepstep Come Shining / From One Big Self / Hardin County / Rural Route / Snow / After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard / From Chernobyl Eclogue / Ravens at Deer Creek / Anything the River Gives / Why Do the Crickets Sing?
Fisher-Wirth, Ann W., editor.
Street, Laura-Gray, editor.
Hass, Robert, writer of introduction.
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Juliana Baggott -- Juliana Baggott -- Ellen Bass -- Ellen Bass -- Dan Beachy-Quick -- Lois Beardslee -- Sandra Beasley -- Marvin Bell -- Dan Bellm -- Margo Berdeshevsky -- Wendell Berry -- Wendell Berry -- Wendell Berry -- Wendell Berry -- Wendell Berry -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- Linda Bierds -- Ralph Black -- Robert Bly -- Marianne Boruch -- Marianne Boruch -- Annie Boutelle -- Elizabeth Bradfield -- Elizabeth Bradfield -- Laynie Browne -- Derick Burleson -- Cyrus Cassells -- Grace Cavalieri -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Jennifer Chang -- Patricia Clark -- Lucille Clifton -- Lucille Clifton -- Lucille Clifton -- Lucille Clifton -- Lucille Clifton -- Henri Cole -- Jack Collom -- Jack Collom -- Julia Connor -- Julia Connor -- Matthew Cooperman -- Stephen Cushman -- Kwame Dawes -- Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Deborah Digges -- Elizabeth Dodd -- Sharon Dolin -- Camille T. Dungy -- Camille T. Dungy -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Tim Earley -- Larry Eigner -- Larry Eigner -- Larry Eigner -- Larry Eigner -- Louise Erdrich -- Louise Erdrich -- B.H. Fairchild -- B.H. Fairchild -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Annie Finch -- Jessica Fisher -- Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Lisa Fishman -- Kathleen Flenniken -- Kathleen Flenniken -- Carolyn Forché -- Carolyn Forché -- Carol Frost.
Juan Carlos Galeano -- Juan Carlos Galeano -- Brendan Galvin -- James Galvin -- James Galvin -- James Galvin -- Forrest Gander -- Forrest Gander -- C.S. Giscombe -- Peter Gizzi -- Louise Glück -- Louise Glück -- Ray Gonzalez -- Charles Goodrich -- Jorie Graham -- Jorie Graham -- Michael Gregory -- Tami Haaland -- John Haines -- Donald Hall -- Joy Harjo -- Joy Harjo -- Joy Harjo -- Lola Haskins -- Lola Haskins -- Robert Hass -- Robert Hass -- Robert Hass -- Robert Hass -- Brooks Haxton -- Chris Hayes -- Allison Hedge Coke -- William Heyen -- William Heyen -- Brenda Hillman -- Brenda Hillman -- Brenda Hillman -- Brenda Hillman -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- Jane Hirshfield -- H.L. Hix -- Tony Hoagland -- Tony Hoagland -- Richard Hoffman -- Linda Hogan -- Linda Hogan -- Cynthia Hogue -- Richard Hugo -- Luisa A. Igloria -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Ronald Johnson -- Rodney Jones -- Judy Jordan -- Judy Jordan -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Galway Kinnell -- Galway Kinnell -- Galway Kinnell -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Ted Kooser -- Ted Kooser -- Maxine Kumin -- Stanley Kunitz -- Dorianne Laux -- Dorianne Laux.
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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
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