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African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Noise Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events-- adapted from dust jacket.

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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Noise Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events-- adapted from dust jacket.
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Young, K. (2020). African American poetry: 250 years of struggle & song. New York, N.Y., The Library of America.

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Young, Kevin, 1970-. 2020. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. New York, N.Y., The Library of America.

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50500|t One: Bury Me in a Free Land, 1770-1899. On imagination ;|t On Recollection ;|t On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770 ;|t To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works ;|t To His Excellency General Washington /|r Phillis Wheatley --|t An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess, in Boston /|r Jupiter Hammon --|t [Bars Fight] /|r Lucy Terry --|t A Mathematical Problem in Verse /|r Benjamin Banneker --|t To Eliza ;|t The Slave's Complaint ;|t On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the Poet's freedom ;|t Division of an estate ;|t The Art of a Poet ;|t George Moses Horton, Myself /|r George Moses Horton --|t An Appeal to Woman ;|t The Grave of the Slave /|r Sarah Louisa Forten --|t Concatination [Selected Pottery Verses, 1834-1862] /|r David Drake --|t The Natives of America ;|t Reflections /|r Ann Plato --|t Armand Lanusse: Epigram ;|t Camille Thierry Ideas ;|t Pierre Dalcour: Verse Written in the Album of Mademoiselle _____ ;|t Victor-Ernest Rillieux: Love and Devotion /|r Les Cenelles --|t America ;|t To Cinque /|r James M. Whitfield --|t Hope and Confidence /|r Charles L. Reason --|t A Life-Day /|r George B. Vashon --|t The Emigrant /|r Benjamin Clark --|t Song for the First of August /|r James Madison Bell --|t A June Song ;|t A Parting Hymn ;|t In the earnest path of duty /|r Charlotte Forten Grimké --|t Toussaint L'Ouverture ;|t Self-Mastery /|r Henrietta Cordelia Ray --|t from The Rape of Florida ;|t A Question /|r Albery A. Whitman --|t The Slave Mother ;|t Bury Me in a Free Land ;|t Learning to Read ;|t A Double Standard ;|t Songs for the People /|r Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
50500|t Two: Lift Every Voice, 1900-1918. The House of Falling Leaves /|r William Stanley Braithwaite --|t Driftwood /|r Olivia Ward Bush --|t America ;|t Character or Color--Which? ;|t Late Mother /|r Carrie Williams Clifford --|t Paul Laurence Dunbar /|r James D. Corrothers --|t A Prayer ;|t And What Shall You Say? ;|t Supplication ;|t A Woman at Her Husband's Grave /|r Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. --|t Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League /|r Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. --|t A Litany at Atlanta /|r W. E. B. Du Bois --|t We Wear the Mask ;|t A Negro Love Song ;|t When Malindy Sings ;|t When de Co'n Pone's Hot ;|t An Ante-Bellum Sermon ;|t Sympathy ;|t A Death Song ;|t Compensation /|r Paul Laurence Dunbar --|t Violets ;|t I Sit and Sew ;|t The Proletariat Speaks /|r Alice Dunbar-Nelson --|t The Black Finger ;|t A Mona Lisa ;|t El Beso ;|t You ;|t Rosabel ;|t The Eyes of My Regret ;|t Trees ;|t Tenebris ;|t Grass Fingers ;|t To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké /|r Angelina Weld Grimké --|t Wooing ;|t A Spade Is Just a Spade ;|t Here and Hereafter /|r Walter Everette Hawkins --|t Retrospect /|r Josephine D. Heard --|t When I Die ;|t The Lonely Mother ;|t Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn? ;|t from African Nights /|r Fenton Johnson --|t Lift Every Voice and Sing ;|t Sence You Went Away ;|t O Black and Unknown Bards ;|t My City ;|t Go Down Death /|r James Weldon Johnson --|t from The Fledgling Poet and the Poetry Society /|r George R. Margetson --|t Ode to the Sun /|r Eloise Bibb Thompson --|t To a Little Colored Boy /|r Priscilla Jane Thompson --|t The New Negro /|r Lucian B. Watkins.
50500|t Three: The Dark Tower, 1919-1936. Japanese Hokku ;|t Negro Woman ;|t Effigy /|r Lewis Grandison Alexander --|t Heritage ;|t Lines written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas ;|t Fantasy ;|t To a Dark Girl ;|t Dirge for a Free Spirit ;|t I Build America ;|t Epitaph /|r Gwendolyn B. Bennett --|t The Return ;|t A Black Man Talks of Reaping ;|t Southern Mansion ;|t The Day-breakers /|r Arna Bontemps --|t Ma Rainey ;|t Old Lem ;|t Slim Greer ;|t Strange Legacies ;|t Southern Cop ;|t To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden ;|t Let Us Suppose /|r Sterling A. Brown --|t Portraiture ;|t Black Baby ;|t Impressions from a Family Album ;|t Coveted Epitaph ;|t Denial ;|t Idle Wonder /|r Anita Scott Coleman --|t Longings ;|t Goal ;|t Farewell ;|t Having Had You ;|t Four Poems--After the Japanese ;|t For a New Mother ;|t I Look at Death /|r Mae V. Cowdery --|t Yet Do I Marvel ;|t Incident ;|t Tableau ;|t Saturday's Child ;|t Heritage ;|t from Epitaphs ;|t From the Dark Tower ;|t Uncle Jim ;|t Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song /|r Countee Cullen --|t No Images ;|t Nineteen-twenty-nine ;|t My Lord, What a Morning ;|t Down-Home Boy ;|t Carry Me Back /|r Waring Cuney --|t The Mask ;|t Solace /|r Clarissa Scott Delany --|t Dead Fires ;|t La Vie C'est la vie ;|t Oblivion /|r Jessie Redmon Fauset --|t My Last Name /|r Nicolás Guillén --|t Notes Found Near a Suicide /|r Frank Horne --|t The Negro Speaks of Rivers ;|t The Weary Blues ;|t Mother to son ;|t Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret ;|t Beale Street Love ;|t Cross ;|t Personal ;|t Midwinter Blues ;|t Bound No'th Blues ;|t Dream Variations ;|t I, Too ;|t Song for a Dark Girl ;|t Let America be America Again ;|t from Montage of a Dream Deferred ;|t Madam and the Rent Man ;|t from Ask Your Mama /|r Langston Hughes --|t The Singer ;|t The Maestro /|r Eva A. Jessye --|t The Heart of a Woman ;|t Cosmopolite ;|t Black Woman ;|t Old Black Men ;|t Common Dust ;|t I Want to Die While You Love Me ;|t Interracial /|r Georgia Douglas Johnson --|t Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ;|t Poem ;|t Invocation /|r Helene Johnson --|t Jamaica Market /|r Agnes Maxwell-Hall --|t Christmas in de Air ;|t The Harlem Dancer ;|t Harlem Shadows ;|t If We Must Die ;|t On Broadway ;|t The Tropics in New York ;|t The Lynching ;|t America ;|t My Mother ;|t "The white man is a tiger at my throat" /|r Claude McKay --|t Man and Maid /|r Myra Estelle Morris --|t Shadow /|r Richard Bruce Nugent --|t Requiem ;|t This Is My Vow /|r Lucia Mae Pitts --|t October Prayer ;|t Flag Salute /|r Esther Popel --|t Black and Blue ;|t The Tree of Hope /|r Andy Razaf --|t At the Carnival ;|t White Things ;|t Sybil Warns Her Sister /|r Anne Spencer --|t Five Vignettes ;|t Her Lips Are Copper Wire ;|t from Cane ;|t from Essentials ;|t Be with Me /|r Jean Toomer.
50500|t Four: Ballads of Remembrance, 1936-1959. To Satch (American Gothic) ;|t Nat Turner or Let Him Come ;|t If the Stars Should Fall /|r Samuel Allen --|t Narrative ;|t Night and a Distant Church ;|t It's Here in The ;|t Spyrytual /|r Russell Atkins --|t from A Street in Bronzeville ;|t Beverly Hills, Chicago ;|t The Bean Eater ;|t We Real Cool ;|t A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon ;|t The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till ;|t The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock ;|t The Lovers of the Poor ;|t Malcolm X ;|t The Second Sermon on the Warpland ;|t Paul Robeson ;|t The Life of Lincoln West ;|t The Boy Died in My Alley ;|t Infirm ;|t I Am a Black ;|t An Old Black Woman, Homeless, and Indistinct /|r Gwendolyn Brooks --|t To Julia de Burgos ;|t Ay, Ay, Ay of the Kinky-Haired Negress ;|t Poem of the Unborn Child ;|t Farewell in Welfare Island ;|t The Sun in Welfare Island /|r Julia de Burgos --|t The Small Bells of Benin ;|t Etta Moten's Attic /|r Margaret Danner --|t from Ebony Under Granite ;|t Mojo Mike's Beer Garden ;|t Four Glimpses of Night /|r Frank Marshall Davis --|t Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One ;|t The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Six Little Black Davids Tapped Danced Unto /|r Owen Dodson --|t Those Winter Sundays ;|t Frederick Douglass ;|t Middle Passage ;|t Runagate Runagate ;|t A Letter from Phillis Wheatley ;|t Paul Laurence Dunbar ;|t [American Journal] /|r Robert Hayden --|t The Truth ;|t Jazz Is My Religion ;|t The Nice Colored Man /|r Ted Joans --|t Hawk Lawler: Chorus ;|t I, Too, Know What I Am Not ;|t Would You Wear My Eyes? ;|t War Memoir ;|t Walking Parker Home ;|t Crootey Songo ;|t Heavy Water Blues ;|t Blues for Hal Waters ;|t Oregon /|r Bob Kaufman --|t from Dark Testament ;|t Prophecy /|r Pauli Murray --|t A Private Letter to Brazil ;|t Review from Staten Island ;|t Man White, Brown Girl and All That Jazz /|r Gloria C. Oden --|t Young Poet /|r Myron O'Higgins --|t Harlem Dawn ;|t A Definition ;|t Jean-Jaques /|r Oliver Pitcher --|t Booker T. and W.E.B. ;|t An Answer to Lerone Bennett's Questionnaire On a Name for Black Americans ;|t A Poet Is Not a Jukebox /|r Dudley Randall --|t Ballad of American Mores ;|t Face of Poverty /|r Lucy E. Smith --|t Dark Symphony ;|t from Harlem Gallery, Book I: The Curator /|r Melvin B. Tolson --|t For My People ;|t Molly Means ;|t October Journey /|r Margaret Walker --|t Between the World and Me ;|t Selected Haiku /|r Richard Wright.
50500|t Five: Ideas of Ancestry, 1959-1975. Still I Rise ;|t Phenomenal Woman /|r Maya Angelou --|t Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note ;|t Look for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today ;|t Notes for a Speech ;|t The Liar ;|t Short Speech to My Friends ;|t Three Modes of History and Culture ;|t SOS ;|t Black Art ;|t Why's 12 /|r Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) --|t King: April 4, 1968 /|r Gerald Barrax --|t Blues ;|t All God's Chillun ;|t The White River ;|t Sam Lord /|r Kamau Brathwaite --|t "in the inner city" ;|t miss rosie ;|t good times ;|t admonitions ;|t "being property once myself" ;|t the lost baby poem ;|t from some jesus ;|t cutting greens ;|t homage to my hips ;|t "the light that came to lucille clifton" ;|t jasper texas 1998 ;|t why some people be mad at me sometimes ;|t "i am accused of tending to the past" ;|t Jump Rope Rhymes (transcribed) ;|t study the masters ;|t to my last period ;|t wishes for sons ;|t "surely i am able to write poems" ;|t "won't you celebrate with me" /|r Lucille Clifton --|t How Long Has Trane Been Gone ;|t Orisha ;|t Rape ;|t Jazz Fan Looks Back /|r Jayne Cortez --|t Son of Msippi ;|t Black Star Line ;|t Outer Space Blues /|r Henry Dumas --|t I Am a Black Woman /|r Mari Evans --|t I Would Be for You Rain /|r Sarah Webster Fabio --|t High on the Hog /|r Julia Fields --|t Black Power ;|t Nikki-Rosa ;|t For Saundra ;|t Ego Tripping ;|t A Poem for Carol ;|t Legacies /|r Nikki Giovanni --|t American History ;|t Dear John, Dear Coltrane ;|t Nightmare Begins Responsibility ;|t Reuben, Reuben ;|t Tongue-Tied in Black and White ;|t Last Affair: Bessie's Blues Song ;|t The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass /|r Michael S. Harper --|t Do Nothing till You Hear from Me ;|t A Coltrane Memorial /|r David Henderson --|t Medicine Man /|r Calvin Hernton --|t What Would I Do White? ;|t These Poems ;|t I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies ;|t Poem about My Rights ;|t Poem for Haruko /|r June Jordan --|t Blues for Some Literary Friends & Myself ;|t For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers /|r Keorapetse Kgositsile --|t A Poem for Myself ;|t The Idea of Ancestry ;|t The Bones of My Father ;|t Haiku ;|t For Freckle-Faced Gerald ;|t The Violent Space ;|t Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane ;|t For Eric Dolphy ;|t Feeling Fucked Up /|r Etheridge Knight --|t On Being Head of the English Department /|r PInkie Gordon Lane --|t Coal ;|t Revolution Is One Form of Social Change ;|t A Litany for Survival ;|t Power ;|t Lunar Eclipse ;|t Inheritance--His /|r Audre Lorde --|t But He Was Cool ;|t Don't Cry, Scream /|r Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) --|t Swallow the Lake ;|t Hair /|r Clarence Major --|t Malcolm X--An Autobiography ;|t Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat /|r Larry Neal --|t 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man /|r Raymond R. Patterson --|t Howlin Wolf ;|t Big Maybelle /|r Sterling D. Plumpp --|t From Where the Blues? ; "WE NEED" ; " ; Metagnomy /|r N. H. Pritchard --|t Beware: Do Not Read This Poem ;|t Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin ;|t The Reactionary Poet /|r Ishmael Reed --|t sonnet ;|t poll ;|t the poor houses ;|t othello jones dresses for dinner ;|t American Jazz Quartet /|r Ed Roberson --|t how i got ovah /|r Carolyn Rodgers --|t for our lady ;|t A Poem for My Father ;|t A poem for my brother ;|t from Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 ;|t haiku (for Osage ave and Doorknop) ;|t haiku (for mungu and morani and the children of soweto) ;|t two haiku (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count) ;|t tanka (for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the sky) ;|t haiku (for domestic workers in the african diaspora) ;|t haiku ("man. you write me so") ;|t tanka ("like dark old men the") ;|t haiku ("like ermine when i") ;|t haiku ("i want to make you") ;|t blues ;|t Song No. 2 /|r Sonia Sanchez --|t Whitey on the Moon ;|t The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ;|t Home Is Where the Hatred Is /|r Gil Scott-Heron --|t After Vallejo /|r A. B. Spellman --|t Inauguration ;|t Song /|r Lorenzo Thomas --|t One for Charlie Mingus ;|t Poem for My Father ;|t After Hearing a Radio Announcement: A Comment on Some Conditions /|r Quincy Troupe --|t A Far Cry from Africa ;|t Codicil ;|t Blues ;|t from The Schooner Flight ;|t Sea Canes ;|t Volcano ;|t Easter ;|t from Omeros: Chapter VIII /|r Derek Walcott --|t Women /|r Alice Walker --|t blues for franks wooten ;|t from Maumau American Cantos: Canto 4 /|r Tom Weatherly --|t How Stars Start ;|t Dance of the Infidels ;|t Boogie with O.O. Gabugah ;|t The Old O.O. Blues ;|t A Poem for Players /|r Al Young.
50500|t Six: Blue Light Sutras, 1976-1989. Twenty-Year Marriage ;|t I Can't Get Started ;|t Two Brothers ;|t The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981 /|r AI --|t from Haiti /|r Will Alexander --|t Titta /|r George Barlow --|t Soul Make a Path Through Shouting ;|t Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson /|r Cyrus Cassells --|t from Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra /|r Barbara Chase-Riboud --|t What It Means to Be Dark ;|t Mastectomy ;|t from American Sonnets /|r Wanda Coleman --|t Harriet in the Promised Land /|r Sam Cornish --|t Blackbottom ;|t The Weakness ;|t On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses ;|t Black Boys Play the Classics /|r Toi Derricotte --|t Leaving Eden ;|t from The Arcanum Poems ;|t Father /|r Ralph Dickey --|t Tour Guide: La Maison des Esclaves ;|t Turning Forty in the 90's ;|t Wednesday Mourning ;|t Heartbeats /|r Melvin Dixon --|t The House Slave ;|t David Walker (1785-1830) ;|t Adolescence--II ;|t Banneker ;|t from Thomas and Beulah ;|t Canary ;|t The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe ;|t Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Cocoanut Grove ;|t from Sonata Mulattica /|r Rita Dove --|t The Dance ;|t The Supremes ;|t from Brutal Imagination /|r Cornelius Eady --|t Brown Girl Levitation, 1962-1989 ;|t Concerto no. 7: Condoleezza [working out] at the Watergate /|r Nikky Finney --|t Some Pieces ;|t Hand Me Down Blues ;|t Dark Mirror /|r Calvin Forbes --|t This Bridge Across ;|t Time with Stevie Wonder in It ;|t Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation /|r Christopher Gilbert --|t Vernacular Examples ;|t Palaver ;|t Sotto Voce /|r C. S. Giscombe --|t For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) ;|t For Claude McKay /|r Lorna Goodison --|t Goldsboro Narrative #4: My father's Viet Nam tour near over ;|t Goldsboro Narrative #28 ;|t Goldsboro Narrative #33 ;|t Goldsboro Narrative #7 ;|t Annual Visit of the Quiet, Unmarried Son /|r Forrest Hamer --|t Heavy Corners ;|t Civil Servant ;|t For My Own Protection /|r Essex Hemphill --|t "C"ing in Colors: Blue /|r Safiya Henderson-Holmes --|t Surplus Future Imperfect ;|t Woman, with wings ;|t Should you find me /|r Erica Hunt --|t Deep Song /|r Gayl Jones --|t i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain /|r Patricia Spears Jones --|t Fragments from the Diary of Amelie Patiné, Quadroon, Mistress of Monsieur Jacques R _____ /|r Sybil Kein --|t from The Women of Plums /|r Dolores Kendrick --|t Annabelle ;|t More Girl Than Boy ;|t Letter to Bob Kaufman ;|t Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel ;|t February in Sydney ;|t from Dien Cai Dau ;|t Venus's-flytraps ;|t My Father's Love Letters ;|t Anodyne ;|t Ode to the Maggot /|r Yusef Komunyakaa --|t Falso Brilhante ;|t Song of the Andoumboulou: 31 /|r Nathaniel Mackey --|t Gra'ma ;|t Try to Understand Papa ;|t Throwing Stones at the All White Pool ;|t Fade to Black /|r Colleen J. McElroy --|t Life in a Sterile Environment: A Case Study ;|t The Day before Kindergarten: Taluca, Alabama, 1959 ;|t A Reconsideration of the Blackbird ;|t An Anointing ;|t Poem for My Mothers and Other Makers of Asafetida ;|t The Lynching /|r Thylias Moss --|t from Muse & Drudge ;|t from Sleeping with the Dictionary /|r Harryette Mullen --|t A Strange Beautiful Woman ;|t Sleepless Nights ;|t Lonely Eagles ;|t Star-Fix ;|t from Fortune's Bones /|r Marilyn Nelson --|t How I Became the Blues /|r Brenda Marie Osbey --|t The Broken English Dream /|r Pedro Pietri --|t The Black Back-Ups /|r Kate Rushin --|t All the Way Home ;|t from Dreamer /|r Primus St. John --|t Trying for Fire /|r Tim Seibles --|t from for colored girls who have considered suicide /|r when the rainbow is enuf /|r Ntozake Shange --|t Building Nicole's Mama ;|t Don't Drink the Water /|r Patricia Smith --|t from Free! /|r Sekou Sundiata --|t Inside the Blues Whale ;|t Scrapple ;|t Washing the car with My Father ;|t John Henry Sleeping in High Grass /|r Afaa Michael Weaver --|t from Letters to a New England Negro /|r Sherley Anne Williams.
50500|t Seven: Praise Songs for the Day, 1990-2008. Blue ;|t The New Religion /|r Chris Abani --|t The Venus Hottentot ;|t Nineteen ;|t Race ;|t Ars Poetica #28: African Leave-Taking Disorder ;|t Ars Poetica #100: I Believe ;|t Praise Song for the Day /|r Elizabeth Alexander --|t loose strife ;|t Doug Flutie's 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire /|r Quan Barry --|t Verbal Mugging /|r Paul Beatty --|t Prayer of the Backhanded ;|t Bullet Points ;|t 'N'em ;|t Another Elegy ;|t The Tradition /|r Jericho Brown --|t A Balance of Blues & Angels /|r Darrell Burton --|t nap-i-ness /|r Kyle Dargan --|t Natural ;|t Black Funk /|r Kwame Dawes --|t Wednesday Poem /|r Joel Dias-Porter --|t Frequently Asked Questions #10 /|r Camille Dungy --|t View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School /|r Thomas Sayers Ellis --|t Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding ;|t Salt /|r Vievee Francis --|t burial ;|t A Small Needful Fact /|r Ross Gay --|t Santa Ana of Grocery Carts ;|t Teeth ;|t Ode to the Little "r" /|r Aracelis Girmay --|t Seeing the Body /|r Rachel Eliza Griffiths --|t Black Mary Integrates the School House /|r Duriel E. Harris --|t Touch ;|t Satchmo Returns to New Orleans ;|t The Golden Shovel ;|t Carp Poem /|r Terrance Hayes --|t How to Listen ;|t Euphoria ;|t Ferguson /|r Major Jackson --|t The Gospel of Barbecue /|r Honorée Fannone Jeffers --|t Charity on Blind Tom ;|t General Bethune on Blind Tom ;|t Blind Boone's Vision ;|t Minnehaha /|r Tyehimba Jess --|t Jesse Owens, 1963 ;|t Rope /|r A. Van Jordan --|t Thirty Lines About the Fro ;|t My Father's Kites /|r Allison Joseph --|t Drop it Like It's Hottentot Venus /|r Douglas Kearney --|t Language, Knowledge, a Teeming River of Implications ;|t Texts, Context, a Fear of Contamination /|r John Keene --|t Hostage /|r Danielle Legros Georges --|t Plantation ;|t from Voyage of the Sable Venus ;|t "Lucy Terry Prince Prepares for Her Marriage" /|r Robin Coste Lewis --|t Ode to the Diasporican /|r Mariposa --|t from Good Stock Strange Blood /|r Dawn Lundy Martin --|t from The Big Smoke ;|t Robot Music /|r Adrian Matejka --|t What the Oracle Said /|r Shara mcCallum --|t The Keepin' It Real Awards /|r Tony Medina --|t Blackout 1977 /|r Tracie Morris --|t gayl jones ;|t cecil taylor ;|t johnny cash ;|t I ran from it but was still in it /|r Fred Moten --|t On Confessionalism /|r John Murillo --|t Written by Himself ;|t Raisin /|r Gregory Pardlo --|t Bembé-Faced ;|t Arroz con Son y Clave /|r Willie Perdomo --|t Blue ;|t Cotillion ;|t A Great Noise ;|t Speak Low /|r Carl Phillips --|t I want to not have to write another word about who cops keep killing /|r Khadijah Queen --|t from Citizen: An American Lyric /|r Claudia Rankine --|t The Difficult Music ;|t The Lucky One ;|t Hesitation Theory ;|t My Mother Was No White Dove /|r Reginald Shepherd --|t from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass ;|t statistical haiku (or, how do they discount us? let me count the ways) ;|t ode to my blackness /|r Evie Shockley --|t Sci-fi ;|t Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? ;|t The Universe Is a House Party ;|t Declaration /|r Tracy K. Smith --|t Offering ;|t Snow /|r Sharan Strange --|t Ode to Gentrification /|r Samantha Thornhill --|t Flounder ;|t Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 ;|t Graveyard Blues ;|t Pilgrimage ;|t Miscegenation ;|t Incident /|r Natasha Trethewey --|t Strip ;|t RR Lyrae: Matter /|r Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon --|t Wind Talker ;|t Work Ethic /|r Frank X. Walker --|t Dissidence ;|t Gwendolyn Brooks /|r Anthony Walton --|t "The reeds shook. A wide flat ass cradled in leather pants. This" /|r Simone White --|t Amethyst Rocks /|r Saul Williams --|t Money Road /|r Kevin Young.
50500|t Eight: After the Hurricane, 2009-2020. How Can Black People Write about Flowers at a Time Like This /|r Hanif Abdurraqib --|t La Negra Takes Medusa to the Hair Salon /|r Elizabeth Acevedo --|t Cento Between the Ending and the End /|r Cameron Awkward-Rich --|t America Will Be /|r Joshua Bennett --|t A Postmodern Two-Step /|r Reginald Dwayne Betts --|t upon viewing the death of basquiat /|r Mahogany L. Browne --|t Massa's House /|r Dominique Christina --|t Nashville /|r Tiana Clark --|t Dear _____, /|r DéLana R. A. Dameron --|t My First Black Nature Poem(TM) /|r LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs --|t I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store /|r Eve L. Ewing --|t Aunt Flo and Uncle Phineas /|r Sean Hill --|t (Afterward) One Corner More, Notes on a Letter to the Singer Abbey Lincoln from Her Lover, Abraham Lincoln /|r Harmony Holiday --|t After the Hurricane /|r Ishion Hutchinson --|t Kansas /|r Gary Jackson --|t Kudzu /|r Saeed Jones --|t The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings /|r Donika Kelly --|t One Country /|r Rickey Laurentiis --|t Still When I Picture It the Face of God Is a White Man's Face /|r Shane McCrae --|t Closer /|r Anis Mojgani --|t #sayhername /|r Aja Monet --|t The President's Wife /|r Morgan Parker --|t Violins /|r Rowan Ricardo Phillips --|t History /|r Camille Rankine --|t Black Can Sleep /|r Justin Phillip Reed --|t Children Listen /|r Roger Reeves --|t Why Is We Americans /|r Alison C. Rollins --|t Object Permanence /|r Nicole Sealey --|t Gnawa Boy, Marrakesh, 1968 /|r Charif Shanahan --|t Fisherman's Daughter /|r Safiya Sinclair --|t dinosaurs in the hood /|r Danez Smith --|t Your National Anthem /|r Clint Smith --|t Prayer /|r Phillip B. Williams --|t Ode to Herb Kent /|r Jamila Woods.
520 |a Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate resistance to slavery. This volume captures the power and beauty of this diverse tradition and its challenge to American poetry and culture. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Noise Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. The volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events-- adapted from dust jacket.
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989 |1 .i13327049x|b 1240058449084|d ssbnf|g -|m |h 3|x 1|t 0|i 1|j 7|k 201110|n 07-16-2023 19:50|o -|a 811.008|r AFR
989 |1 .i134789908|b 3325302007800|d dhanf|g -|m |h 1|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 300|k 201210|n 04-16-2022 18:53|o -|a 811.008 AFRICAN
989 |1 .i135107398|b 1440003007851|d banf|g -|m |h 1|x 0|t 1|i 0|j 70|k 210115|n 01-31-2024 18:15|o -|a 811.008|r AFR
989 |1 .i135156026|b 31813006297609|d below|g -|m |h 3|x 0|t 0|i 2|j 300|k 210120|n 08-12-2022 21:33|o -|a 811.008 AFRICAN
989 |1 .i135229753|b 31526080374215|d epnf|g n|m 220628|h 4|x 0|t 0|i 8|j 2|k 210128|n 04-21-2022 00:18|o -|a 811|r AFRICAN
989 |1 .i135260024|b 1110011976673|d mrlaq|g d|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 300|k 210129|o -|a 811.008 Afr
989 |1 .i135340779|b 1080006382934|d culmb|g -|m |h 5|x 0|t 2|i 2|j 18|k 210202|n 03-01-2024 19:44|o -|a PS591.N4|r A37 2020
989 |1 .i135602749|b 1270001724157|d gucnf|g -|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 300|k 210205|o -|a 811.008|r Afr
989 |1 .i136488328|b 1130003908484|d pc|g -|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 2|k 210222|o -|a 811.008|r A258
989 |1 .i136502271|b 1090061658951|d mpca|g -|m |h 1|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 7|k 210223|n 02-24-2022 16:34|o -|a 811.008|r A258a
989 |1 .i136502283|b 1090061658969|d mpfa|g -|m |h 2|x 0|t 1|i 2|j 7|k 210223|n 03-25-2024 14:17|o -|a 811.008|r A258a
989 |1 .i136502295|b 1090061658977|d mpmnf|g -|m |h 5|x 1|t 0|i 4|j 7|k 210223|n 05-26-2023 20:15|o -|a 811.008|r A258a
989 |1 .i136601686|b 1220006665390|d gcgnf|g -|m |h 3|x 0|t 0|i 1|j 70|k 210303|n 05-12-2022 21:27|o -|a 811.008|r AFR
989 |1 .i136602125|b 1220006664453|d gccnf|g -|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 70|k 210303|o -|a 811.008|r AFR
989 |1 .i139641798|b 1220006768163|d gcrnf|g -|m |h 2|x 1|t 1|i 2|j 70|k 210806|n 04-01-2024 23:36|o -|a 811.008|r AFR
989 |1 .i14532106x|b 1030003626302|d cmg|g -|m |h 2|x 2|t 0|i 0|j 18|k 230131|n 02-14-2023 20:19|o p|a PS591 .N4 A37 2020
989 |1 .i150091394|d mdlh|g q|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 28|k 240222|o d
989 |1 .i150975375|b 31526004153968|d epnf|g -|m |h 0|x 0|t 0|i 0|j 2|k 240307|o -|a 811|r AFRICAN
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995 |a Loaded with Marquis via m2btab.ing by Mesa County Libraries on 2021.02.23
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b in 2021.02
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.ltiac 2020.12
995 |a Loaded with m2btab.b 2020.12
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995 |a Loaded with m2btab.click in 2024.02
998 |a ba|a be|a cm|a cmg|a cu|a d|a (4)ep|a (6)gc|a (2)gcc|a (2)gcg|a (2)gcr|a gu|a guc|a mdlh|a (2)mr|a (6)mp|a (2)mpc|a (2)mpf|a (2)mpm|a pc|a (2)ss|a (2)ssb|a (2)su|a (2)suf|b 240307|c m|d a |e -|f eng|g nyu|h 0|i 48
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