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The 100* best African American poems : (*but I cheated)
Title
The 100* best African American poems : (*but I cheated) / edited by Nikki Giovanni.
ISBN
9781402221118
1402221118
Published
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2010.
Physical Description
228 p. ; 22 cm. + 1 sound disc (70 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Notes
Includes index.
Accompanying CD: "Featuring performances on CD by Ruby Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many more friends..."
Summary
Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove.
Variant and related titles
One hundred best African American poems
Best 100 African American poems
Best one hundred African American poems
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2011
Contents
The aunt / Mari Evans
For my people / Margaret Walker
Leroy / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Ars poetica: Nov. 7, 2008 / L. Lamar Wilson
Ka'ba / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story ; The sermon on the warpland ; We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks
Jazz baby is it in you / Antoine Harris
"I fade into the night" / Adam Daniel
Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown
I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton
I am a black woman ; Who can be born black? / Mari Evans
Nikki-Rosa ; Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni
The dry spell / Kevin Young
Those winter Sundays ; Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden
The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes
Choosing the blues / Angela Jackson
My father's love letters / Yusef Komunyakaa
The creation / James Weldon Johnson
A Negro love song / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lift every voice and sing ; Go down death / James Weldon Johnson
Between ourselves / Audre Lorde
The union of two / Haki R. Madhubuti
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall
A poem to complement other poems / Haki R. Madhubuti
No images / Waring Cuney
Between the world and me / Richard Wright
Theme for English B ; Easy boogie ; Dream boogie ; Dream boogie (variation) ; Harlem ; Good morning ; Same in blues ; Island / Langston Hughes.
The blue Terrance / Terrance Hayes
The mother ; A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till ; A sunset of the city / Gwendolyn Brooks
Things I carried coming into the world ; Topography / Remica L. Bingham
Beneath me ; Autobiography / Jericho Brown
Parable of the sower / Pamela Sneed
Heritage ; Yet do I marvel ; Incident / Countee Cullen
We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
Trifle ; The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson
Woman with flower / Naomi Long Madgett
The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight
Don't say goodbye to the porkpie hat / Larry Neal
Cleaning / Camille T. Dungy
Boston year / Elizabeth Alexander
She wears red / Jackie Warren-Moore
Commercial break: road-runner, uneasy / Tim Seibles
Before making love / Toi Derricotte
Be-bop / Sterling Plumpp
Personal letter no. 3 ; Poem at thirty ; A poem for Sterling Brown / Sonia Sanchez
Marchers headed for Washington, Baltimore, 1963 / Remica L. Bingham
And yeah...this is a love poem / Nikki Giovanni
The carousel / Gloria C. Oden
Only everything I own / Patricia Smith
Lot's daughter dreams of her mother / Opal Moore
The girlfriend's train / Nikky Finney
Back from the arms of big mama / Afaa Michael Weaver
Mama's promise / Marilyn Nelson
Bop: a whistling woman / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton
Train ride / Kwame Dawes
Train rides / Nikki Giovanni
A great granddaddy speaks / Lamont B. Steptoe
Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / Kevin Young
View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis
Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natash Trethewey
Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson
From / A. Van Jordan
Freedom candy / E. Ethelbert Miller
The Supremes / Cornelius Eady
Nikki save me / Michele Scott
"Nikki, if you were a song ..." / Kwame Alexander
Haiku / DJ Renegade
Untitled / Nadir Lasana Bomani
"I wish I could've seen it ..." / Leodis McCray
That and some mo' / DJ Renegade
Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina
Dancing naked on the floor / Kwame Alexander
Harriet Tubman's email 2 master / Truth Thomas
A river that flows forever ; The rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur
Rochelle / Reuben Jackson
All their stanzas look alike / Thomas Sayers Ellis
From the center 2 the edge ; The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele
Sounthern University, 1962 / Kevin Young
Poetry should ride the bus / Ruth Forman
Blues for spring / Colleen J. McElroy
The bicycle wizard / Sharan Strange
Bicycles / Nikki Giovanni
A clean slate / Fred D'Aguiar
Song through the wall / Akua Lezli Hope
A seat saved / Shana Yarborough
Sunday greens / Rita Dove
The untitled superhero poem / Tonya Maria Matthews
Mercy killing
Remica L. Bingham
If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan
Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni.
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