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I am the darker brother : an anthology of modern poems by African Americans
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- Summary
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Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.
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- Creator
- edited and with an afterword by Arnold Adoff ; drawings by Benny Andrews ; introduction by Rudine Sims Bishop ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Rev. ed., 1st Simon Pulse ed
- New York : Simon Pulse, ©2002
- Physical Details
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- 207 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- ISBNs
- 0689808690, 9780689808692
- OCLC
- ocm56446322
- The rev. ed. includes 21 new poems and 19 additional poets.
- Includes indexes.
- Introduction: Notes from a darker sister / Rudine Sims Bishop -- Foreword: The poem speaks / Nikki Giovanni -- Like I am. Me and the mule / Langston Hughes -- The rebel / Mari Evans -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Cross / Aunt Jane Allen / Fenton Johnston -- The whipping; Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Flash cards / Rita Dove -- Nikki-Rosa / A song in the front yard / Flowers of darkness / Frank Marshall Davis -- Juke box love song / The glory of the day was in her face / James Weldon Johnson -- Bronzeville man with a belt in the back / Madhouse / Calvin C. Hernton -- Ka'Ba / Amiri Baraka -- For poets / Al Young -- Genealogy. Each morning / A moment please / Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Southern mansion / Arna Bontemps -- O Daedalus, fly away home / October journey / Margaret Walker -- Dust bowl / Robert A. Davis -- A ballad of remembrance ; Middle passage / The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight -- Blackbottom / Toi Derricotte -- now poem. for us. / Sonia Sanchez -- Our grandmothers / Maya Angelou -- Shall be remembered. Frederick Douglass ; Runagate Runagate / Memorial wreath / Dudley Randall -- Vaticide / Myron O'Higgins -- A poem for Black hearts / For Malcolm who walks in the eyes of our children / Quincy Troupe -- To Richard Wright / Conrad Kent Rivers -- American gothic / When Mahalia sings / Quandra Prettyman -- Yardbird's skull / Owen Dodson -- Montgomery / Sam Cornish -- Here where Coltrane is / Michael S. Harper -- Martin Luther King Jr. / If we must die. If we must die ; The lynching / Claude McKay -- "So quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- The daybreakers / Song for a dark girl / Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- When I know the power of my Black hand / Lance Jeffers -- Lynching and burning / Primus St. John -- Endangered species / Al -- I am the darker brother. I, too, sing America / A Black man speaks of reaping / From the dark tower / Countee Cullen -- On passing two Negroes on a dark country road somewhere in Georgia / Beehive / Jena Toomer -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sorrow is the only faithful one / If the stars should fall / For a lady I know ; Incident / We wear the mask / Hokku : in the falling snow / Yet do I marvel / The train runs late to Harlem / Award / Ray Durem -- Status symbol / Black is a soul / Joseph White -- Jacket notes / Ishmael Reed -- The hope of your unborn. The still voice of Harlem / Dream variation / Listen children / Lucille Clifton -- change-up / Haki Madhubuti -- Suicide / Alice Walker -- For each of you / Audre Lorde -- The men / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Poems for my brother Kenneth VII / In time of crisis / Raymond Richard Patterson -- The noonday April sun / George Love -- After the winter / Four sheets to the wind and a one-way ticket to France / For my people / Afterword : thirty years after words