Black moods : collected poems /
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| Author / Creator: | Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987 |
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002. |
| Description: | lxviii, 275 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American poetry recovery series American poetry recovery series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4677177 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: Weaving Jagged Words into Song
- Note on the Text
- Black Man's Verse (1935)
- Introduction
- Chicago's Congo
- Only My Words
- What Do You Want America?
- I Sing No New Songs
- Lynched
- What's a New Full Moon?
- Rain
- Gary, Indiana
- Jazz Band
- Mojo Mike's Beer Garden
- Cabaret
- Returned
- The Slave
- Five Portraits of Chicago at Night
- Hands of a Brown Woman
- Creation
- Which One?
- Lullaby
- Death
- Georgia's Atlanta
- Portrait of an Old Woman
- South State Street Profile
- Fragments
- I. Finding
- II. Christians?
- III. Query
- IV. Dreams
- V. Kansas Winter
- VI. Failure
- VII. Race
- VIII. April Night
- Love Cycle
- I. Tryst
- II. To You
- III. Love Notes at Night
- IV. The Story Ends
- V. Realization
- Ebony under Granite
- I. Rev. Joseph Williams
- II. Goldie Blackwell
- III. Acey White
- IV. Robert Whitmore
- V. Arthur Ridgewood, M.D.
- VI. George Brown
- VII. Giles Johnson, Ph.D.
- VIII. Roosevelt Smith
- I Am the American Negro (1937)
- Forewarning
- I Am the American Negro
- Dancing Gal
- Flowers of Darkness
- They All Had Grand Ideas
- Christ Is a Dixie Nigger
- Washington Park, Chicago
- Note Left by a Suicide
- To One Who Would Leave Me
- 'Mancipation Day
- Notes on a Summer Night
- Awakening
- Come to Me
- Modern Man-the Superman
- Two Women
- For Any Unborn Negro
- "Onward Christian Soldiers!"
- Midsummer Morn
- Ebony under Granite
- I. Moses Mitchell
- II. Sam Jackson
- III. Jonathan Wood
- IV. Cleo and Sarah Greeley
- V. Benjamin Blakey
- VI. Nicodemus Perry
- VII. Mrs. Clifton Townsend
- VIII. Editor Ralph Williamson
- IX. Frank Marshall Davis: Writer
- 47th Street: Poems (1948)
- Foreword
- Section I
- 47th Street
- Snapshots of the Cotton South
- Pattern for Conquest
- Black Weariness
- Egotistic Runt
- Chicago Skyscrapers
- Tenement Room
- Four Glimpses of Night
- To Those Who Sing America
- Section II
- Peace Quiz for America
- For All Common People
- War Zone
- Nothing Can Stop the People
- Section III
- I Bring Proven Gifts
- Lines to a Summer Love
- To One Forever Gone
- To Lorelei
- Life Is a Woman
- Alone
- You Are All
- Section IV
- Coincidence
- Man of Science
- Adam Smothers
- Mental Man
- Spinster: Old
- I Have Talked with Death
- Self Portrait
- Peace Is a Fragile Cup
- Uncollected and Unpublished Poems, 1948-84
- Social Verse
- To the Red Army
- I Have Faith
- Creed for Hedonists
- Ours Is a Modern God
- Little and Big
- Public Servant
- Give Us Our Freedom Now!
- Finality
- To Those Seeking Fame
- Black American
- Three Average Americans
- [Ike Mosby]
- Miss Samantha Wilson
- To a Young Man
- Jazz Poems
- Billie Holiday
- Duke Ellington
- Charlie Parker
- Louis Armstrong
- Lady Day
- Ella
- "Swing It Brother Swing"
- Hawaii
- This Is Paradise
- Moonlight at Kahana Bay
- Tale of Two Dogs
- Pacific Invasion
- Horizontal Cameos: 37 Portraits
- 1. Lani
- 2. Anne
- 3. Mamie
- 4. Connie
- 5. Hazel
- 6. Mary
- 7. Mrs.
- 8. Lorna
- 9. Eloise
- 10. Alma
- 11. Maggie
- 12. Betty
- 13. Frances
- 14. Lucille
- 15. Agnes
- 16. Winnie
- 17. Louise
- 18. Flo
- 19. Blondie
- 20. Wilma
- 21. Madeline
- 22. Hannah
- 23. Charity
- 24. Rose
- 25. Trudy
- 26. Arline
- 27. Rita
- 28. Hilda
- 29. Bernice
- 30. Jean
- 31. Patty
- 32. Marjorie
- 33. Olive
- 34. Jessica
- 35. Josephine
- 36. Verna
- 37. Essie Mae
- Lyrics of Love
- To Helen
- [In What Strange Place]
- To My Own
- She
- Alpha-Omega
- The Search Ends
- Alone
- Appendix
- War Quiz for America
- Notes to the Poems
- Index of Titles
