| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xx, 231 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
American century series
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American century series.
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| Contents |
O black and unknown birds; Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- Dawn; Compensation; The debt; Life; My sort o 'man; The party; A song; Sympathy; We wear the masks / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Rhapsody; Scintilla / William Stanley Braithwaite -- To Clarissa Scott Delany; The black finger / Angeline W. Grimke -- For Jim, Easter eve; Lines to a nasturtium; Letter to my sister / Anne Spencer --Morning light the dew-drier / Effie Lee Newsome -- Common dust; Trifle; The poet speaks; I want to die while you love me; Your world; Lovelight; Prejudice; Conquest / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- The daily grind; The world is a mighy ogre; A negro peddler's song; The old repair man; Counting / Fenton Johnson -- The tropics in New York; Outcast; St. Isaac's church, Petrograd; Flame-Heart; If we must die; The white house / Claude McKay -- Georgia dusk; Song of the son; Brown river, smile / Jean Toomer -- Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson -- Kids stuff; Notes found near a suicide; To a persistent phantom; Symphony / Frank Horne -- McDonogh day in New Orleans; Dialect quatrain / Marcus B. Christian -- Sister Lou; When de saints go ma'chin' home / Sterling A. Brown -- Solace / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Brass spittoons; Cross; Jazzonia; The negro speaks of rivers; I, too; Bound no'th blues; Personal; Dream variation; Mother to son; Lenox avenue mural; Pennsylvania station; I dream a world; Without benfit of declaration / Langston Hughes -- Hatred; Heritage; Sonnet I; Sonnet II / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- A black man talks of reaping; Close your eyes!; The day-breakers; Golgotha is a mountain; idolatry; Reconnaissance; Southern Mansion; Nocturne at bethesda / Arna Bontemps -- Heritage; That bright chimeric beast; Yet do I marvel; Four epitaphs; Simon the cyrenian speaks / Countee Cullen -- Appoggiatura; Benediction; Haven; Poet; Threnody; Alien; Pastourelle / Donald Jeffrey Hayes -- The resurrection / Jonathan Brooks -- Flowers of darkness; Four glimpses of night / Frank Marshall Davis -- No images; Threnody; Finis / Waring Cuney -- Poem; The road; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem; Invocation / Helene Johnson -- Between the world and me; Hokku poems / Richard Wright -- Adjuration / Charles Enoch Wheeler -- Without name; Dark testament / Pauli Murray -- A ballad of rememberance; Witch doctor; Middle passage; Frederick Douglass; Veracruz / Robert Hayden -- Perspectives; I loved you once / Dudley Randall -- Sorrow is the only faithful one; Drunken lover; Sickle pears; Hymn written after Jeremiah preched to me in a dream; Yardbird's skull; Sailors on leave / Owen Dodson -- Stevedore / Leslie M. Collins -- For my people; Molly means; October journey / Margaret Walker -- The fishes and the poet's hands; Weltschmerz; Wisdom; You are a part of me; Calm after storm / Frank Yerby -- A moment please; To satch / Samuel Allen -- Here and now / Catherine Carter -- Flags; The old-Marrieds; Piano after war; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The African affair / Bruce McM. Wright -- Sonnet / Alfred A. Duckett -- Sunset Horn / Myron O' Higgins -- And on this shore; Letter across doubt and distance; Notes for a movie script; Song / M. Carl Holman -- Christmas lullaby for a new-born child / Yvonne Gregory -- Far from Africa: Four Poems; The slave and the iron lace / Margaret Danner -- A private letter to Brazil; The carousel; "As when emotion too far exceeds its cause"; The map / G. C. Oden -- The Rebel; When in Rome; The emancipation of George-Hector / Mari E. Evans -- Raison d'Etre / Oliver Pitcher -- Four questions addressed to his excellency, the Prime Minister / James P. Vaughn -- At war; Irritable song; Its here in the / Russell Atkins -- Lester Young; Voice in the crowd / Ted Joans -- Harlem sounds: Hallelujah corner / William Browne -- The voyage of Jimmy Poo; The treehouse; Get up, Blues / James A. Emanuel -- Four sheets to the wind and a one-way ticket to France, 1933; To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note; The invention of comics; As a possible lover; The end of man is his beauty / LeRoi Jones -- Celebrated return / Clarence Major -- No time for poetry / Julia Fields -- The bishop of Atlanta: Ray Charles / Horace Julian Bond -- Two jazz poems / Carl Wendell Hines, Jr. -- Cocoa morning; I have folded my sorrows; African dream; Battle report; Forget to not / Bob Kaufman -- Hearing James Brown at the cafe des Nattes; Juan de Pareja / Richard A. Long -- If you come softly / Audre Lorde -- Young negro poet / Calvin C. Hernton -- Affirmation; Philodendron / Helen Armstead Johnson -- Woman with flower / Naomi Long Madgett -- Good times / Lucille Clifton -- Malcolm X - An autobiography / Larry Neal -- But he was cool; Assasination; Education; Stereo / Don L. Lee -- My poem; Nikki-Rosa; Knoxville, Tennesse; The funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.; Kidnap poem; A robin's poem / Nikki Giovanni -- No smiles; Genealogy; Maryuma / Frank Lamont Phillips -- And she was bad; We rainclouds; Leslie; Five sense / Marvin Wyche Jr. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- African American authors. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| ISBN |
0809025213 080900108X (pbk.) $6.95 |
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