The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | xxix, 424 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5753332 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. To Make a Poet Black
- Today's News
- when i stand around among poets
- Flame
- Nexus
- To the Pale Poets
- Why Do So Few Blacks Study Creative Writing?
- Puttin' On The Dog (for "Corner Girl")
- "Michaelangelo" the Elder
- For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
- Bloodbirth
- Incantation (for jonetta)
- Blah-Blah
- Detroit Addendum-(for Philip Levine)
- One sees pictures of Dante
- Poem (for the Blues Singers)
- Not About Poems
- Three Legged Chairs
- 2. What is Africa to Me?
- O Daedalus Fly Away Home
- Afro-American Fragment
- O Africa, where I baked my bread
- African Dream
- 125th Street and Abomey
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 8
- Outcast
- Gift from Kenya
- Exploring the Dark Content
- My Father's Geography
- 3. The Rocking Loom of History
- Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett, and Other Latter-Day Saints
- Three Modes of History and Culture
- Southern Road
- Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves
- The House Slave
- Son of Msippi
- (The Recent Past)
- Middle Passage
- Runagate Runagate
- Go Left Out of Shantiville
- A Hambone Gospel
- Song of the Son
- 4. Like Walking Out of Shadow
- In My Father's House
- Return of the Native
- Gordian Knot
- We Have Never Loved
- Blackie Thinks of His Brothers
- Blackbottom
- Sorrow is the Only Faithful One
- Nigger Song: An Odyssey
- Afro-American
- The Wrong Street
- Now
- Alabama Poem
- Tenebris
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- My People
- My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land
- The Bones of My Father
- How I See Things
- The Question of Identity
- The Black Unicorn
- Song of the Andoumboulou: 12
- Swallow the Lake
- The Griots Who Know Brer Fox
- Black Power
- Blue
- Ballad of Black/Essence (for Joseph Harrison)
- Flounder
- For My People
- 5. If We Must Die
- Poem for Halfwhite College Students
- Beverly Hills, Chicago
- the ISM
- Death of Dr. King
- Is It Because I Am Black?
- Homestead, USA
- A Litany at Atlanta
- America
- We Wear the Mask
- The World I See
- Night, Death, Mississippi
- The Mob
- Dream Boogie
- Tired
- If We Must Die
- Watts
- Walk Like Freedom
- A Poem for Players
- 6. This Man Shall Be Remembered
- Robeson at Rutgers
- American Gothic/To Satch
- For Malcolm: After Mecca
- Music for Martyrs
- Malcolm X
- harriet
- Harriet Tubman
- In Mr. Turner's Fields
- Banneker
- David Walker (1785-1830)
- Saba
- Frederick Douglass
- Fired Up!! (for Judy Rollins)
- The Old Mongoose-for Mac
- For Beautiful Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader
- For Etheridge Knight
- For Malcolm X
- For Mary McLeod Bethune
- A Dance for Ma Rainey
- 7. A Rock Against the Wind
- So Long
- If I Were Earth
- Seduction
- The Anti-Semanticist
- Desire
- Echo
- Woman with Flower
- She Is Flat On Her Back (for K.F.)
- Omnivore
- The Joy
- Pretty Piece of Tail
- (For Poki)
- Levitation
- Highflown: Love
- answer to yo / question of am I not yo / woman even if u went on shit again
- The Source of the Singing
- 8. Is She Our Sister?
- Whispers in a Country Church
- The Mother
- Jessie Mitchell's Mother
- Virginia Portrait
- the lost baby poem
- song at midnight
- Grinding Vibrato
- On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Females Corpses
- Canary (for Michael S. Harper)
- ...And the Old Women Gathered (The Gospel Singers)
- Black Queen Blues (Finale)
- She (for Carolyn Grace)
- Soft Targets (for Black Girls)
- Stations
- The Old Women
- 1915 Interior
- Illusion
- The Circus of the City
- Lessons from a Mirror
- Anatomy
- Eyes in the Back of Her Head
- Tune for a Teenage Niece (for Jeanine Spencer)
- Feminism
- There Is a House
- Old Black Ladies Standing on Bus Stop Corners #2
- Mama I Remember
- 9. Don't It Make You Want to Cry?
- Blood to Blood
- Young Soul
- We Real Cool
- Strong Men
- those boys that ran together
- Portraiture
- Knees of a Natural Man (for Jay Wright)
- Gifts
- San Diego Goodbye-1944, Jacksaw Arena
- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
- Losses
- When Loneliness Is a Man
- At 102, Romance Comes Once a Year (for Joseph Johnson, Seattle)
- Father (Part 1)
- Father's Day
- Epigrams for My Father (John Henry Redmond, Sr.)
- To the Father of Me
- Amateur Fighter (for my father)
- Reflections on Growing Older
- Poem for My Father (for Quincy Trouppe, Sr.)
- Baby Boy
- Anatomy
- 10. Whose Children Are These?
- Whose Children Are These?
- the children of the poor (1)
- photograph
- The Furious Boy
- After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
- Fourteen
- Nikki-Rosa
- Black Cryptogram
- My Children
- Motherhood
- Circling the Daughter
- Little Man Around the House
- Now That I Am Forever with Child
- Offspring
- Accessible Heaven
- 11. They Are All of Me
- Why Didnt He Tell Me the Truth
- In My Father's House
- Kitchenette Building
- Cousin Mary
- Family Secrets
- Touching/Not Touching: My Mother
- Taking in Wash
- Abraham Got All the Stars n the Sand
- Mothers
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Camp Story
- Kin 2
- Those Winter Sundays
- Big Zeb Johnson
- The Idea of Ancestry
- My Father's Loveletters
- Black Mother Woman
- Under the Oak Table
- Ruth
- Jasmine
- One for All Newborns
- Saturday Afternoon, When Chores Are Done
- a poem for my father
- Little Girl Talk
- If he let us go now
- The Boiling
- 12. Oh, Singing Tree!
- Ma Rainey
- Hell Hound Blues
- Brother John
- Homage to the Empress of the Blues
- Jazzonia
- Walking Parker Home
- Copacetic Mingus
- Glenn on Monk's Mountain
- Lamda
- Dancers
- The Art of Benny Carter
- 13. Oh, My Soul Is in the Whirlwind!
- Nocturne at Bethesda
- good friday
- Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
- Madam and the Minister
- Song of the Whirlwind
- The Creation
- Calvary Way
- Holy Days
- mama's God
- A New Nephilim
- Myself When I Am Real
- Revival
- Gray Day in January in La Jolla
- 14. Dear Lovely Death
- The Scuba Diver Recovers the Body of a Drowned Child
- The House of Falling Leaves
- The Rites for Cousin Vit
- In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father
- the death of thelma sayles
- The Charm
- A Death Song
- Wedding
- We Assume: On The Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper
- Nightmare Begins Responsibility
- Song for a Suicide
- Wake
- Suicide's Note
- Aunt Jane Allen
- Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)
- Awe
- A Poem of Attrition
- Another Poem for Me (after Recovering from an O.D.)
- Please
- My Mother
- Going Under
- Annie Pearl Smith Discovers Moonlight
- The Old People Speak of Death (for Grandmother Leona Smith)
- Solace
- Wake
- 15. I Dream a World
- Family Affairs
- Rhinemaiden
- Open Letter
- Paradiso
- Walking Down Park
- Dream Variation
- I Dream a World
- For Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
- Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
- The Gods Wrote
- I Have a Dream
- Daybreak
- Now
- In C. W.'s Closet
- The Song Turning Back Into Itself 2
- Biographies
- Credits
- Index
