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Reprinted by permission of the authamr. �• t f _p.ns; rtl ' #i I • ,' Oj/rn,'e(Alvin Saxon) for lines from "Watts," from 'the Poetry of Black .•••. / Kmerica, copyright c 1973 by Ojeknke. Reprinted by permission of 1 ' the author. insert #e 'Job:nJie - S'cott for lines from "The Fish Party" and"Watts," from From Ashes: Voices of Watts , copyright c 196"( by liohni-ie Scott. Negobiations for reprint rights incomplete at time of publication. ¼ Wrife ·, r Si'n /1.:1+ insert :/19 Paul Vesey(Sarnuel Allen) for lines from "To Satch, 11 from Soon, One Morning, copyright /4' 1963 by Paul Vesey. Reprinted by permission of the author . �I ' I' I '' ' ' I , t I • I l. , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ✓ Many thanks are due the following poets, editors, publishers and survivors of poets for use of cited material. All efforts have been made to secure the proper permission for each selection. 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Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, Inc.; Owen Dodson for lines from llll!I. 11 The Confession Stone," "Let me rock him again in my trembling arms" and "Mary Passed This Mornin~ from The Confession Stone, volume 13 in the Heritage Series, published by Paul Bremen, Limited, London, 1970. Copyright @1970 by Owen Dodson. Reprinted by permission of Owen Dodson. Mrs. Shirley Graham DuBois for lines from W.E.B. DuBois's "A Litany of Atlanta," copyright@:)1906 by W.E.B. Du Bois, "Hymn of Hat~• from Darkwater: The Twentieth Century Completion of Uncle Tom's Cabin, copyright@l920 by W.E.B. Du Bois, and "Song of the Smoke, 11 copyright@l899 by W.E.B. Du Bois. Reprinted by permission of Mrs. Shirley Graham Du Bois. Random House, Inc. for Henry Dumas'~: Talk Joke" and for 1i nes from "Jackhammer," "Ngoma, 11 "Play Ebony Play Ivory," 11 Rite, 11 "Root Song, 11 and 11 A Song of Flesh," from Play Ebony Play Ivory, copyright©l974 by Loretta Dumas and edited by Eugene B. Redmond. 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Published by South &West, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pinkie Gordon Lane. Elouise Loftin for lines from "Getting Caught" and Rain Spread, 11 from Jumbish, 11 copyright(s)l972 by Elouise Loftin and published by Emerson Hall, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author. Black River Writers Press for lines from Wayne Loftin's of the River: 11 Realit:f from Sides A Mini-Anthology of Black Writing, edited and copyright~ 1969 by Eugene Redmond. Reprinted by permission of Black River Writers Press. Broadside Press for lines from Audre Lorde's "Black Mother Woman, from From a 11 Land Where Other People Live, copyright@l973 by Audre Larde and reprinted by permission of Broadside Press; Audre Larde for lines from Moon-minded 11 the Sun" appearing on pp (fill in), from Sixes and Sevens, copyright(g 1962 by Audre Larde, and "Rites of Passage," from Cables to Rage, copyright@ 1970 by Audre Larde. Used by permission of the author. 10 �Twayne Publishers for lines from Claude McKay's "Baptism," "If We Must Die" and "The Lynching," from Selected Poems of Claude McKay, copyright@l953 by Twayne Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Twayne Publishers, a Division of G.K. Hall & Co. Broadside Press for lines from Haki R. Madhubuti's "First Impressions of a Poet's Death," from Think Black, copyright(s)l967 by Don L. Lee, and "The Self-Hatred of Don L. Lee" and "Don't Cry, Scream," from Directionscore: Selected and New Poems, copyright(s)1971 by Don L. Lee. Reprinted by permission of Broadside Press. George Reginald Margetson for lines from The Fledgling Bard and the Poetry Society, copyright@ 1916 by George Reginald Margetson. Reprinted in The Book of American Negro Poetry, edited by James Weldon Johnson. 1931 by Harcourt, Brace &World. Johnson. Copyright~l922, Copyright(91950, 1959 by Mrs. Grace Nail Source for reprint rights could not be found at publication time. G.C. Oden for lines from 11 ••• As When Emotion Too Far Exceeds Its Cause, 11 from Kaleidoscope, edited by Robert Hayden. Copyright@l967 by G.C. Oden. Reprinted by permission of the author. Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) for lines from 11 Watts, 11 from The Poetry of Black America, copyright@ 1973 by Ojenke. Reprinted by permission of the author. Pat Parker for lines from "Brother," from Child of Myself, copyright @1972 by Pat Parker. Reprinted by permission of the author. Third World Press for Dudley Randall's 11 copyright(pl971 by Dudley Randall. Iwo Jima 11 from More to Remember, Reprinted by permission of Third World Press, 7524 South Cottage Grove, Chicago, Ill. 60619. 11 • �Black River Writers Press for lines from Eugene Redmond's 11 Invasion of the Nose, 11 from River of Bones and Flesh and Blood, copyright(£)1971 by Eugene Redmond, and "Inside My Perimeter," from In a Time of Rain & Desire, copyright© 1973 by Eugene Redmond. Reprinted by permission Black River Writers Press. 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Reprinted by permission of Broadside Press. Johnie Scott for lines from 11 The Fish Party 11 and 11 Watts, 11 from From Ashes: v·oices of Watts, copyright@l967 by Johnie Scott. Negotiations for reprint rights incomplete at time of publication. Welton Smith for lines from Malcolm, 11 11 from Penetration, copyright@Jl971, published by Journal of Black Poetry Press. available. 12 Source of reprints not �• • . • The Jupiter Hammon Press for 1i nes from LeRoy Stone I s from Burning Spear: II Fl amen co Sketches, 11 An Anthology of Afro-Saxon Poetry, copyright(E)l963 by the Dasein Literary Society. Reprinted by permission of Jupiter Hammon Press of The Dasein Literary Society. Firesign Press for lines from Joyce Carol Thomas's "I Know a Lady, 11 from Crystal Breezes, copyrightes)l974 by Joyce Carol Thomas. Reprinted by permission of Firesign Press, Box 402, Berkeley, Calif. 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Reprinted by permission of Jupiter Hammon Press of The Dasein Literary Society. 14 �I ! • i :' I ' 1 , I Paul R. Reynolds for specified lines from Richard Wright's "Between the World and Me, 11 copyright@l935 by I.re Partisan Review, and ! Have Seen Black 11 Hands, 11 copyright{£)1935 by The Partisan of Paul R. Reynolds, Inc. 15 Reyiew. Reprinted by permission � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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