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Contents introduction. gloria house 11 gwendolyn brooks Introduction. Gloria House 20 kitchenette building 25 when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story 26 love note I: surely 27 the progress 28 The Bean Eaters 29 We Real Cool 30 The Lovers of the Poor 30 The Ballad of Rudolph Reed 35 Malcolm X 38 Fire, from The Third Sermon on the Warpland 39 An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire 40 The Life of Lincoln West 41 To Don at Salaam 47 Paul Robeson 48 The Boy Died in My Alley 49 Elegy In a Rainbow 51 A Black Wedding Song 52 Horses Graze 53 "When Handed a Lemon, Make Lemonade" 55 Friend 56 etheridge knight Introduction. Albert M. Ward 60 Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane 65 He Sees through Stone 66 The Idea of Ancestry 68 Haiku 70 To Make a Poem in Prison 72 As You Leave Me 73 Portrait of Malcolm X 74 To Dinah Washington 75 For Langston Hughes 76 To Gwendolyn Brooks 76 Apology for Apostasy? 77 Genesis 77 Another Poem for Me 78 Relaxing in the Charity Ward at Mercy Hospital 80 A Poem to be Recited 81 No Moon Floods The Memory of That Night 82 Belly Song 83 This Poem 87 For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide 89 Jazz Drummer 89 A Poem for Myself 90 The Bones of My Father 91 Cop-out Session 93 audre lorde Introduction. Willie Williams 96 For Each of You 105 Equinox 107 Black Mother Woman 110 The Seventh Sense 111 Teacher 112 Moving Out or The End of Cooperative Living 115 Generation II 118 Conclusion 119 The Winds of Orisha 120 Who Said It Was Simple 123 To My Daughter The Junkie On A Train 124 Now 126 Love Poem 127 Separation 128 Even 128 Revolution Is One Form Of Social Change 129 All Hallows Eve 130 Viet-Nam Addenda 131 Sacrifice 132 Blackstudies 134 haki madhubuti Introduction. Sondai K. Lester 144 The New Integrationist 149 "Stereo" 150 Re-Act for Action 151 First Impressions on a Poet's Death 152 Gwendolyn Brooks 154 But He Was Cool or: he even stopped for green lights 156 DON'T CRY, SCREAM 158 Malcolm Spoke/ who listened? 164 a poem to complement other poems 165 blackmusic/a beginning 168 A Message All Blackpeople Can Dig 170 We Walk the Way of the New World 172 Move Un-noticed to be Noticed: A Nationhood Poem 176 Re-taking the Takeable 180 LlFE-STUDIES 181 WORLDVIEW 181 dudley randall Introduction. Hilda Vest 186 Ballad of Birmingham 191 Memorial Wreath 193 Old Witherington 194 George 195 A Different Image 196 Dressed All In Pink 197 Roses and Revolutions 198 The Brightness Moved Us Softly 199 My Second Birth 200 The Profile on the Pillow 200 Anniversary Words 201 On Getting a Natural 202 Pacific Epitaphs 203 Poet 208 African Suite 209 To the Mercy Killers 212 Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker 212 Courage: A Revolutionary Poem 213 For Gwendolyn Brooks, Teacher 214 Green Apples 214 I Loved You Once 215 Tell It Like It Is 216 Blood Precious Blood 216 A Litany of Friends 217 Poor Dumb Butch 221 The Ones I Love 222 Loss 222 To Be in Love 223 Women 224 The New Woman 224 In Africa 226 Bag Woman 226 A Poet Is Not a Jukebox 228 When I Think of Russia 231 sonia sanchez Introduction. Jessica Care Moore 236 malcolm 242 to all sisters 244 personal letter no.2 245 liberation/poem 246 Blk/Rhetoric 247 Indianapolis/Summer/1969/Poem 249 It's a New Day 251 To P. J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) 252 we can BE 253 and it will be ours 254 woman 255 earth mother 257 young/black/girl 258 young womanhood 262 womanhood 271 We are Muslim Women 273 epilogue. rosemary Weatherston 278
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American poetry -- African American authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Poetry.
Broadside Press.