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The 100 best African American poems : (*but I cheated)
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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 ...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Nikki Giovanni
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 228 pages ; 22 cm + 1 audio disc (70 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9781402221118, 1402221118
- OCLC
- ocn432979687
- 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 ..."
- Dedication: The Aunt / Mari Evans -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- Leroy / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Ars poetica: Nov 7, 2008 / L. Lamar Wilson -- Ka'ba / 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? / 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 / Between ourselves / Audre Lorde -- The union of two / Haki R Madhubuti -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- A poem to complement other poems / No images / Waring Cuney -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Theme for English B ; Harlem Suite ; Easy boogie ; Dream boogie ; Dream boogie (variation) ; Harlem ; Good morning ; Same in blues ; Island / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Train ride / Kwame Dawes -- Train rides / A great granddaddy speaks / Lamont B. Steptoe -- Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natasha Trethewey -- Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson -- From / A. Van Jordan -- Freedom candy / E. Ethelbert Miller -- The Supremes / Cornelius Eady -- Jazz Suite: 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' / Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina -- Dancing naked on the floor / 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 / From the center 2 the edge ; The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele -- Southern University, 1962 / Poetry should ride the bus / Ruth Forman -- Blues for spring / Colleen J. McElroy -- The bicycle wizard / Sharan Strange -- Bicycles / 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 / If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan -- Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni
- CD contents: The Aunt / Mari Evans, read by Carolyn H. Dixon -- For my people / Margaret Walker, read by Val Gray Ward -- When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Ruby Dee -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by the poet -- Gwendolyn Brooks, read by ensemble -- Old Lem / Sterling A. Brown, read by Joanne V. Gabbin -- I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton, read by Sue Ott Rowlands -- I am a black woman / Mari Evans, read by Val Gray Ward -- Who can be born black? / Mari Evans, read by Novella Nelson -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni, read by Linda Dixon -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni, read by the poet -- The dry spell / Kevin Young, read by Novella Nelson -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden, read by Carolyn Rude -- Robert Hayden, read by the poet -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes, read by Dr. Charles Steger -- The creation / James Weldon Johnson, read by Terry L. Papillon -- The mother / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Rudy Dee -- A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Rudy Dee and Nikki Giovanni -- A sunset of the city / Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen, read by Kevin G. McDonald -- Incident / Countee Cullen, read by Gena E. Chandler -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar, read by Novella Nelson -- The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson, read by Ethel Morgan Smith -- Boston year / Elizabeth Alexander, read by the poet -- Personal letter no. 3 / Sonia Sanchez, read by the poet -- Poem at thirty / A poem for Sterling Brown / Lot's daughter dreams of her mother / Opal Moore, read by Ethel Morgan Smith -- Mama's promise / Marilyn Nelson, read by the poet -- Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton, read by Ennis McCrery -- Train rides / Nikki Giovanni, read by Virginia C. Fowler -- Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natasha Trethewey, read by Joanne V. Gabbin -- Nikki, if you were a song / Kwame Alexander, read by Novella Nelson -- A river that flows forever, and The rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur, read by Novella Nelson -- Mercy killing / Remica L. Bingham, read by Novella Nelson -- Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni, read by the poet
Subjects
- American poetry -- African American authors.
- African Americans -- Poetry.
- African Americans -- Poetry.
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