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d r, Lewis: from The Poetrb of rrhe Negrd ( rughes
J
Doubleday, l~7. p. 158.
J "Nocturne Varial 11 (2 lines):
D
1)
~
Bontemps),
I crone as a shadow,
To dazzle your night.
Allen, Junius Mordecai(J. Mord Allen): from Negro Poets and their Poems
(Robert~. Ker lin, ed.), Washington, D.c.: Associated
Publishers, 1935. P• 50.
J."The Psalm of Uplift 11 (8 lines):
Till sunset of eternity ••••
To die--but gain an inch.
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5--
t
Atkins, Russel : from American Negro Poetry(Bontemps), Hill
cc
Wang ,
1974.
J. "At
War" (4 lines):
sudden 1 d its appear • •
fugitives ••••
(>J.169)
;2. "Irritable Song 11 (6 lines):
Or say upon return •••
in today?
(p
170)
Baraka, Imrunu Amiri : from Black Magi c Poetry, Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
/
11
Black Art 11 ( 34 lines) :
Poems are bullshit unless they are •••
or LOUD
(p 116-117)
). "Black People" (4 lines):
••• let 1 s get toge t her the fruit ••
your tomish ways.
(p.225)
:J
11
leroy"(5 lines):
when I die, the consciousness I carry I will to •••
alone. {p.217)
�4". "Sterling
Street ;;jeptember" ( 3lines):
We are strange in a way beca use we lmow •••
a tortured passage of flesh.
(p.177)
Black, Austin: from The Tornado in Hy Mouth , .llixposition Press, 1966.
j "Asexual Flight 11 (2 lines):
a man 1 s last wish •••
instead of remiss.
(p.11).
Bontemns, Arna? from American Negro Poetry, Hill~ Wang, 1974
J. "Golgatha is a Mountain" ( 2 lines):
One day I will crumble •••
I think it will be Golgotha.
(p.79)
Brooks, Gwendolyn: from Family Pictures, Broadside Press, 1970
]."i:>peech to the Young 11 (2 line s):
Live not for The-~nd-of-the-~ong.
Live in the a long
lP• 23)
from ~elected Poems, Harper & Row, 1963.
:).. "The Anniad 11 ( 7 lines):
Think of sweet and chocalate ••
The minuets of memory.
"] "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed 11 (3 lines-}:
Falling like fat rain •••
And a beastly butche r knife.
'-(- "Beverly Hills, Chicago 11 ( 2 lines):
•• not tha t anybody •••
••
beautiful banner •
�>'
"the ' ch'ildren of the poor"
H4 ( 2 lines):
For having first to civilize a space
Wh erein to play your violin with gra ce.
~
"Of De Witt Williams on .dis Way to Lincoln Gemetery 11 (6 lines):
Swing low swing low sweet swe e t chariot •••
Plain black boy.
1
"do not be afraid of no 11 ( 2 l-ines):
It is b r ave to be involved,
To be not fearful to be unresolved.
"6
"Langston Hughes 11 ( 2 lines):
Yet b is right of twisting free •••
Till the air ia cured of its fever.
Cf "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till 11 (2 lines):
Chaos in windy grays
through a red prairie.
l O "Ne gro
Hero" (lli lines):
tndeed, I'd rath er be dead;
Than saved by t h e drop of a black man's blood.
f( "'f ue Preacher: Huminates Behind the Sermon 11 ( 2 lines)•
Buy him a Coca-Cola or a beer,
Pooh-p ooh 1is politics, call him a fool?
/2 "Riders to the Blood-Red ~rath 11 (15 lines):
My scream! unedited, unfrivolous •••
We lurch, distribute, we ext end, be gin.
(3'POf Robert Frost 11 (2 lines):
Iron at the mouth ••
With a place to stand.
('f 11we
Beal Cool" ( 8 lines):
We real cool. We
Die soon.
�Brow.n, Sterling: from Southern Road, Beacon Press, 1974(1932).
1
/ "Memphis Blues 11 ( 2 lines):
De win' sing sperrichals
Through deir dus• ••••
(p.59-61)
from Black Writers of America(Barksdale & h.innamon), Macmillan Company, 1972,
2- "Old
Lem II l 3 lines):
They donrt come by ones ••
But they come by tens.
(p.633-34)
Burrell, Benjamin: from Negro Poets and Their Poems(~erlin) .
/ "To a Negro Mother" ( 2 lines):
Create anew the captains of the past,
Build in your soul the Ethiopian power, •••
(p.303-304)
Christian, Marcus B.: from The Poetry of the 'iegro (H & B).
/"MclJonogh Day in New 0rleans 11 (2 lines):
But few would know--or even guess this fact:
• • • is black •
(p.157)
Clifton, Lucille: from Good News About the tarth, Handom House , 1972.
( "Lately" (4 lines):
I 1 m 25 years old ••
are younger than me.
1
( p. 8)
.l-"Mary 11 ( 10 lines) :
this kiss ••
i see a tree
'J
( P. 39)
"God's Mood " (4 lines):
He is tired of bone, ••
adamis whining ways.
(p.15)
�Cornish, ::;am: from People Beneath the ~'indow, ::;acco PubJ_ishers;
408 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. n.d.
l
11
MIID LE CLASS GIRLS \JITH CRIPPL~D FINGERS WAITING FOR ME TO LIGHT
THEIR CIGARETTS 11 (13 J_ines):
/
your fingers ••
with restless stares.
Cortez, Jayne: from J:testivals and Funerals, Phrase 'rext, 1971.
( "Festivals and Funerals 11 (8 lines):
They winged his spirit & •••
festivals and funerals •••
Cotter, Joseph Seamon Sr.: from Negro Poets and
11
/
'fhe Don't
0
'l
1
heir Poems (E.erlin)
are Negro"(4 lines):
Neber min' your manhood 1 s risin 1 • •
~o you have a way to stay it.
2...
11
(p
The Negro Child 11 (3 lines):
237)
••• be your food, your drink, your rest,
•
Your head and hea rt to dare.
(302-303)
Cotter, Joseph ::;eamon Jr.:from Negro Poets aid Their Poems( Kerlin).
/" "Rain Music 11 ( 3 lines):
Now a whispered murmur, •••
• • • drumsticks •
Cullen, C0 untee: from The Book of American Negro Poetry(James Weldon Johnson,ed
Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959.
( "Her:rtage 11 (( 2 lines) :
"Doff this new exuberanc e
Come and dance t he Lover Is ~~a~ t II
~ "Heritage 11 ( 6 lines): •
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, •••
Do I play a double part
( 224)
l
�from On These I ~tand, Harper
Row, 1947.
&
] "Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song 11 (2 lines):
••• sharp and pretty
• • • sacco and vanzetti'{l~O)
from Caroling Dusk(Cullen, ed.}, Harper & How, 1927, 1955.
t(_-
0
Yet Do I Marvel 11 ( 2 lines):
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black and bid him singJ
(182)
Cuney, Waring: from The Negro Caravan(Brown, Davis, Lee, eds.), New Mork:
Arno Press, 1970.
/ "Hard Times Blues"(3 lines):
Great-God-Am.ighty •••
Lost all they ever had.
(375)
2..."No
11
Images (3 lines):
• • • thinks her brown body •••
.,
Has no glory.
And dishwater gives back no images
(375)
l
Cunningham, James(Olumo): from Jump Bad(Gwendolyn Brooks, ed), Broadside
Press, 1971.
11
St. Julien• s .l:i:ve: For flennis Cross 11 ( 3 lin~ s):
the wind-man tearing at the brigge •••
float up to the sky ••••
(129)
Davis, Frank Marshall : from Understanding the New Black Poetry(Stephen
Henderson,ed ), William Morrow , 1973
/ "Jazz Band" (2 lines):
Play that thing you jazz rra d fools! •••
Plink plank plunk a plunk.
(lL~)
�7
DeLegall, ~valter: from ~urning 0pear: An Anthology of Afro-~axon Poetry,
Washington, D.5., Jupiter Harmnon Pr~ss, 1963.
/ "Psalm for Sonny Rollins 11 (4 lines):
Absorbed in the womb of the sound •••
I am the sound.
(B)
Deveaux, Alexis: from ~pirits in the Streets, Doubleday, 1973.
/
paragraph excerpt(8 lines):
Lord why he beat that woman so? and them •••
word.
(107)
D~nkins, CharJes: from Negro Poetry and Drama(Sterling Brown), Atheneum,
1969.
f
"Invocation 11 ( 2 lines) :
Forgive thine erring people, Lord,
Who lynch at home and love abroad.
(52)
f
Dodson, Owen:from The Confe s sion Stone: Song Cycles, Paul Bremen, 1971.
11'.riie Confes s ion .::>tone 11 (2 lines),
Shushhh, you need the rest (i)
2---
111'lary
Let me rock him again in my trembling arms (v)
Passed This Morning" (8 lines):
Martha •••
0igned Joseph
}from Powerful Long Ladder(Dodson), 1946.(fa..v-rO..\'"l)S1;'av!.S'tj"Countee Cullen 11 ( 2 lines):
We hear all mankind yearning
f
For a new year without hemlock in our glasses.
(73)
Divine Comedy(9 lines):
Cancel us •••
This shall not be for ev er.
6,'ratJx)
�Dodson( contd)
5
"Guitar"(4 lines):
Aini t had .4obody •••
Where I rorun
(5)
{, "Jonathan I s Song" t 3 lihes):
Jew is not a race ••
I am a part of this.
(89)
7 "Lament
11
(
10 lines) :
Wake up, boy, and tell me how you died •••
o,
'b
wake , up, wakel
(3-4)
"Open l,etter 11 (9 lines):
Brothefs,let us discover our bearts again, ••
• • • take our black hands in yours •
(103)
7 Poems for
My Brother Renneth(2 lines):
There was no reply:
You gave me a smile and re turned to the grave.
(65)
DuBois, William bdward Burghardt: from The Book of Nnerican Negro Poetry
(Johnson), 1959
/ "A Litany of Atlanta 11 (2 lines):
Surely Thou too art not white,
0 Lord, a pale bloodless thing?
(93)
from Darkwa~er: The 'r wentie.th Cevtu1 Completion of Uncle Tom I s <Jabin. WasP.ington, D.C.: A. Jenkins o., 1920 •
.) "Hymn of Hate 11 (4 lines) :
I hate them,. •
As
J
I hate hell!
from Black Voices(Abraharn Chapman, ed ), New American Library, 1968
"Song of the Smoke 11 ( 6 lines):
Souls unto me are as mists in the night,
Hail to the black!
(3 (, 0)
�Dumas, Henry: from Play ~bony Play Ivory(~ugene Redrnond,ed), Random House,
1974.
( "I Laugh Talk Joke 11 ( 18 lines):
i laugh talk joke
cause I don 1 t play
(50)
2,.
11
from Jackhammer 11 ( 2 lines):
The jackjack backing back and stacking stone
••• echoes of dust(lB)
1 "N goma
11
(_
13 lines ) :
aiwa aiwa
louder louder
(8 -10)
f "Play Bbony Play Ivory
11
(7 lines):
for the songless, the dead •••
poison the hea rt of e a rth
)
11
U3)
Ri te 11 ( 12 lines):
Vodu green clinching his wrist,. ••
I am not clean
(5-6-,}
~"Root Song" ( 2 lines):
Once when I was tree
Flesh came and worshipped at my roots.
(19)
7
"~aba 11 ( 7 lines):
sx waterings •••
of flagella flucksing rite
(130-131)
Song of Flesh 11 ( 8 lines):
When I awoke, •
•• sea of your he a rt.
(38 )
r
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Dunbar~Nelson, Alice: from Negro Poets and rheir Poems(Kerlin)
/ 11'I'he Lights at Garneyts Point"(2 lines):
And the sun laughed high in the infinite sky,
And the lights were forgot in the sweet, sane ~~lm.
(147)
Durem, Ray: from Take No Prisoners, Paul Bremen, 1971.
/ "Broadminded" (4 lines):
Some of my hest friends are white boys.
• • • as if they was people •
Evans, Mari: from I
Am
(11)
A Black Woman, Willian Morrow, 1970
/ 11Who 6an be Born Black" (4 lines) :
Who •••
and not exult I
(93)
2-- "'J:he
Hebel" ( 2 lines):
Curiosity/seekers
(76)
Felton, B.• from C0 nclusions, Monarch Printing Service, 1971.
J 11An .c.legy to Eternity 11 (2 lines):
Tear-ducts swell, bursting in a
delight of flood ·and fury.
Fields, Julia: from Nine Black PoetstR. Baird Shuman , ed ), Moore Publishing
Company, 1968
] "Aardvark" ( 3 lines)!
Looks like Malcolm helped •
••• thought about before.
(75)
�Fowler, Sherman: from Sides of the Rivert~ugene ttedmond, ed.), Black
River Writers(see Redmond 1 s address), 1969.
J
II
l'hinking '1 ( 2 lines ) :
vomiting tidings
only v~e mind can hear
(16)
Giovanni, Ni kki: from Black ..t!'eeling, Black Talk/Black Judgment, William Mo rrovtl 97 0.
J
"0 0 ncerning One Responsible Negro With Too Much Power" (3 lines):
your tongue must be removed
to keep it in check
)_ "Of Liberation"\ 12 lines):
Dykes of the world •••
'}
••• your own black hearts .
11
Nikki-Rosa II t.5 lines):
your biographers never understand.
concerns you. •
if "The
True Import of the Present Dialogue, Black vs Negro 11 {12 lines):
Nigger •••
••• Black men
from My House (Uiovanni), 1972
5 "Africa I
11
(
6 lines):
on the bite of a kola nut
I
of the suns tongue ••••
Govan, Oswald: from Burning Spear: An Anthology of Afro-Saxon Poetry,
Jupiter Hammon Press(D.C ), 1963.
f
"rhe Lyne ing" ( 3 lines):
tle was soaked in oil and the match throim •
• • fiery inhuman dance.
(18)
//
�GrimkEf, Angelina: from American Negro Poetry;(Arna Bont emp s, ed. ) , Hill
Wang, 19 63 •
_,
/
"'fhe Bla ck Finger" ( 2 lines):
Why, beautiful still finger, are you bla ck?
And why are you pointing upwards?
(17)
Harper, Michaels.: from Dear John, Dear Coltrane, University of ~ittsburgh
Pre SB, 1970
/ "Dear John, Dear Colt r ane 11 (11 lines):
Why you so black?
a love supreme, a love supre me: •••
( 75)
Hayden, Robeet: fro m The Negro Caravan( Brown, Da vis, Lee), Arno Pres s , 197 0
/ "Gm:bri el 11 ( 2 lines ) :
Fr om fo r go tten gr aves
••• Never, n ever rest.
(405)
from Selected Poems , October House , 1966.
2-" Runagat e
Hunagate 11 (.:;, lines) :
Run s f alls r ises •• (one line )
And before I'll be a sla v e
I 1 11 be buried in my grave(2 lines)
Dead folks cant •••
you keep on going now or die , she s a ys . (2 lines )
from Words i n the Mourni ngtime, October House , 1970
)
11
El-Ha j j Mali k El Shab a zz 11 ( 6 line s):
He Xrd his n ame, b e came h is people ' s anger ,
f
•• ice gardens of their s ervitude .
(39)
"Zeus Over Redeye 11 ( 10 lines) :
a sacred phalli c grove • •
us no relieving shade .
( -31 )
�/3
Hollo way, John Wesley: from '1:he Boo!f of American-ONegro Poetry(Johnson), 1959.
11
/
Calling the Doctor" (4 lines):
Blue-mass, laud-hum, liver ~ills,
ant half-a bottle X. Y.
2..
11
Miss
z.
(136)
erlerlee 11 (3 lines):
Sof 1 brown cheek an' smilin 1 face •••
1'1
An' silky arm so plump ant bare.
(134-135)
Holloway,Lucy Ariel Williams: from The Book of American Ne gro Poetry{Johnson),
1959.
11
(
N6rthboun 111 ( 6 lines): .. ,.
,,----
ll_' it Is one long strip •••
I 1 m upward boun 1 •
l288 -289 )
Hughes, Langston: from The Book of American ~egro Poetry(Johnson), 1959
/ "Jazzania 11 (6 lines):
Oh, silver tree!
Oh, si. 1 v er rivers of t h e "IOUl I
(236)
from Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, Alfred Knmpf, 1970.
2,..."Harlem" ( 2 lines):
What happens to a dream deferred?
Or does it explode?
{268)
J
"Mother to Sont' ( 2 lines):
Well son I 1 11 t ell you:
Life for me ain 1 t b een no cry st a l stair.
f
(1 87 )
11
The Ne gro Speak s of Ri vers"( 8 line s):
r
1
ve known rivers: •••
My s oul h as grown deep like the r ivers
(4 )
�Hughes(contd)
from Good v orning Revolution(Faith Berry, ep. . ) , Lawrence Hill
1973 •
c:
Company,
.>"Goodbye Christ 11 ( 3 lines) ;
You did alright in your day, I reckon-- •••
Mark Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin, Worker, ME--
Jeffers, Lance : from My Blackness i s the Beauty of This Land, Broadside Press,
1970 .
/ "Black Soul of the Land"(? lines ) :
a secret spine • •
•·• cease to be its name .
( 9)
2,_
11
My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land 11 ( 3 lines):
My blackness •••
••• wounded and wise , • •
(8 )
Joans, Ted: from New Negro Poets: u.s.A (Langston Hughes, ed.), University
of Indiana Pre ss, i964
J
'The .38" ( 7 lines):
I hear it coming faster than sound the
•
38
Hellof,, 1 1 m here!
~
(83-84)
Johnson, Charles Bet-tram: from Negro Poets andl Their. Poems (Kerlin), 1935.
J
We have fashioned laughter • ••
Pain and tears again.
t4 lines, no title given)
Johnson, Fenton: from Black Voices(Chapman), 1~68
1 "Ti red 11 ( 3 lines);
Throw the children into the river :
•• • you are colored.
(3'70)
Johnson, Georgia Douglas: from Caroling Du.sk~Cullen), 1955.
11 1
,,/' rhe Dreams of the Dreamer" ( 3 lines):
Are tones that repeat •••
Till it ceases to beat
( 81)
�IS
Johnson, Felene: from Caroling Dusk(Cullen), 1955.
1
11
~
.
lines):
Nagiq.1µ"(3
Would you sell the colors of your sunset ••
••• let you dance?
Johnson, James Weldon: from Fifty Years and Other Poems, Boston: C0 rnhill,
1917.
1 "My
Lady I s Lips Am Like de Honey" ( 2 lines):
Felt her kinder squeeze mah han 1 ,
1 Nuff to make me understan•.
2,. 11 0 Black and unknown Bards 11 ~4 lines):
0 black and unknown bards of long ago, •••
0 black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed, ••
from God•s Trombones: Seven Negro ~ermons in Uerse, The Viking Press, 1955.
3 "The
Creation" (4 lines):
Like a mammy bending over her baby,
Till He shaped it in His own image, •••
t
"'l 'he Prodigal Son" (3 lines):
Young man-Your arm I s too short to box with tiod.
Johnston, Percy: from Burning Spear(see listing above)
]
11Fitchett•s Basement Blues, Opus 5"(2 lines)~
I want 6oltrane or Sonny all
I get is Brubeck, ••
Jordan, June: from Some Changes(Jordan), E.P. Dutton, 1971
J
"uncle Bull-boy 11 ( 6 lines):
Bis brother ••
• • • his folded arms.
Jordan, Norman: from Destination:Ashes, Third world
J "High Art an d all that Jazz"(5 lines):
Fuck you and your •••
nasty and funkey
ress, 1970.
�16
Kaufman, Bob: from ijolden Sardine, City Lights Books, 1967(San Francisco)
1~
'Heavy Water Blues" ( 6 lines):
The radio is teaching my goldfish Jujitsu •••
••• too much weight
Knight, Etheridge: from Belly Song, Broadside .Press, 1973.
1,
"The Bones of My Father 11 (2 lines):
from the bottom
of the Tallahatchie.
from Poems from Prison, Broadside Press, lij68.
,2. "Haiku 9 11 ( 3 lines):
Making jazz ijwing in •••
No square poet's job
Lane, Pinkie Gordon: from Wind Thoughts, South and West, Inc.l Fort Smith,
Arkansas, 1972.
j,."griefs
of joy" ( 11 lines):
Mo nothing remains the same ••••
interlocked like death.
Loftin., Elouise: from Jumbish, l!;merson Hall Publishers,Inc., 1972.
1 . ."Getting Caught
11
(13 lines):
if they catch you
ok
J, "Rain thing
Spread" l 2
•
lines):
Last night threw her legs
open to me ••••
J
Loftin, Wayne: from Sides of the River, Black River Writers(Hedmond), 1969.
"Reality"(4 lines):
out of the cotton fi e lds •••
and sh a des of s lums
�Lorde, Audre: from Sixes and Sevens, London: Paul Bremen, 1962.
J_ "Moon-minded
/7
the Sun 11 ( 2 lines ) :
The light that makes us fertile
shall make us sane.
from From a Land Where Other People Live, Broadside ~ress, 1973.
j__
11
Black Mother Woman 11 (3 lines):
I learned from you ••
·fhrough your denials.
from The Poetry of Black America(Arnold Adoff, ed), Harper
J "Rites
&
How, 1973.
of Passage"(3 lines):
Quick ••• .
••• through dreams.
McKay, C1aude: from Selected Poems of Clau~e McKay, Harcourt, Brace~ World, 1953
J "Baptism" ( 2
lines):
I will come out., back to your world of tears,
A stronger soul within a finar frame.
2."If We Must Die 11 (2 lines):
Like men we'll face the murdermus, cowardly pa ck,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fi ghting ba ckl
J
11
The Lynching 11 ( 2 lines ) :
And little lads, lynch e rs tha t were to be,
Danced round the dredful thing in fiendish glee.
Madhubuti, Haki R. (Don L. Lee): from Directionscore: ~elected and New
Poems, Broadside fress, 1971,
J "The
;:;;elf-Hatred of Don L. Lee" (3 lines):
my light •••
outer.
i -"Don 1 t Cry Scream"(3 lines)=
i cried for billy holiday •••
the blues exhibited visions of manhoo d.
�Madhubuti(contd )
from Think Black, Broadside rress , 1967.
J. "Fi rst
Impr>essions of a Poet ' s 0eath"(L~ lines) :
seldom •••
overexposure .
Marget son, George Reginald: from The Book of American
.1. 'l'he
l\l egro
Poetry( Johnson), 195
Fledgling Bard and the r oetry ~ociety ( 8 lines):
Some look to Booker T. Washington to lead them, •••
To marry and to mix in white society .
Oden, G. C : from Kaleidoscope {R0 bert Hayden , ed.), Harcourt , Brace & World, 1967 •
..1..
11
• • •
1hen .t:!.rnotion Too Far Exceeds Its Cause
As
11
(3 lii;Je s):
I, too, once trusted air
that plunged me down .
Yes, If
Ojenk e(Alvin ~axon): from The Poetry of Black America(Adoff), 1973 •
..f. 11 Watts 11 (2
lines):
assas sinating tin people and whole •••
some too-true , truth • • • •
:J.
Parker , fat: from Child of M self , Women 1 s Press Collective, 5251 Broadway,
Oakland, Calif., 9 618, 1972.
"brother " (2 lines):
4
is called
a fist .
Randal l, Dudley: from Black Voices(Chapman), 1968.
t
W. E. B "(19
s
fro
Third World -..Pre s, 1971 .
)- "Iwo Jima 11 (2 lines) :
Like oil of ~ exas
My blood gushed here .
�/9
Rivers, Conrad Kent: from The Still Voice of Harlem, Londonf Paul Bremen,
1972.
/
"In Defense of Black Poets" ( 2 lines):
a black poet must remember the horrors •
1
• • to read you.
"The Still Voice of Harlem" U lines):
I am the hope ••
of your unborn.
} "Watts"(4 lines):
:Must I shoot ••
in his head?
from The Wright Poems, London: Paul Bremen, 1972.
4 nTo
Hi chard Wright 11 ( 3 lines)!
To be born black ••• · ~,
~
••• the grand adventure.
1
Sanchez, Sonia: from ::omecoming, Broadside r r ess, 1969.
"Malcolm" ( 9 lines):
Yet this men •••
• • • gun-filled nights.
from The poetry of Black America\AdoffJ, 1973.
2
"definition for blk/children~ '.14 lines):
a policeman •••
<
oink~
Scott, Johnnie: from From the Ashes: ~ 0 ices of Watts(Budd Schulberg,ed.),
The World Publishing Company, 1967.
J "The
Fish Party 11 (2 lines):
The fish are ga th ering again tonight, •••
HPy,lool{? ~ldie has eaten Jesus up!
•rA:"Watts, 1966"(2 lines):
The man named Fear has inherited half an acre,
and is angry.
�Simmons, Judy Dothard: from Judith's Blues, Broa~side Press, 1973.
,..t. "Schizophrenia" ( 2
lines-):
it won't come back
inside of me.
Smith, Welton: from Pepetration, Journal of Black Poetry Press(l971), 922B Haight Street, Sanfrancisco, Calif.
J.. . Malcolm
11
11
(
2 lines):
in my heart there are many
unmarked graves.
Stone, LeRoy: from Burning Spear(see listing above), 1963.
J. "Flamenco
Sketches 11 (4 lines):
Dissonant nostalgia of one kiss •••
Comment!
Thomas, Joyce Carol: from Crystal Breezes, Firesign Press(l974), P.O. Box 402,
Berkeley, Calif 7¾.701.
1., "I
Know a Lady" t.5 lines):
I know a lady •••
Fine thread of steel • • •
Tolson, Melvin B.: from Rendezvous with America, D0 dd., Mead, 1944.
J ."Rendezvous ·with America 11 (9 lines):
Time unhinged the gates •••
America!
Dar:\t Symphony II t 5 lines ) :
Before white Patrick Henry's •••
J.."
We advance!
J "An
Ex-Judge at t he Bar" (4 lines):
d
Bartehder, make it straight anA make it two-One for the l~egro ••• one for you and me.
�'io son(contd)
from Harlem Gall~ry, Twayne Publishers, 1~r5.
1 "Alpha
11
(4 lines):
I travel from oasis •••
J:°'
11
••• twilled is plain
Beta (4 lines) :
11
one needs the clarity •••
swollen with rye
b "Eta
11
13 lines-}:
(
Across an alp of chitterlings, •••
an Iscariot or an Iago.
1 "Gamma
11
(
9 lines):
Between the dead sea hitherto •••
Catacombs of Bosio.
8
"Lambda" ( 2 line s ):
I I d b e _the greatest trumpeter •••
r"
if old batchmo had nev er been born
XI" ( 8 l ine s ) :
The ni ght John Henry is born an ax ••.
••
a platter of pork and beans!
/) "Zeta 11 (3 lines) :
and infamy
the siamese twin
of fame.
from Libretto for the Republic ofl Liberia, Twayne, 1953
/f "Do" (4
{ 2 "Do" (4
lines) :
You are •••
Without a hemidemisemiquaver in an Oxford Stave!
lines):
a tooth puller a pataphysicist in a ••
••• on a walk )
�Tolson(contd)
{ 7 "Ti
11
(5 lines):
Q;uai d t Orsay •••
Again black Aethiop reaches at the sun, 0 Greek.
Toomer, Jean: from Black Writers of America(Barksdale and Kinnamon),
1972.
/ "Blue Meridian" (-2 lire s):
We• re al 1 niggers now--get me?
.~. your choice.
from Cane, Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1969.
2 "Song-of
the Son 11 (4 lines):
Pour o pour that parting soul in song,
••• a singing tree.
Traylor, Mark: from Bla ck Poets Write On: An Antholog of Black Philadelphian
POETS, Bl a ck Hi s tory Museum onnnittee, P.O. Box 1 0 7, Philadelphia,
Penn., 1970.
{ "Cool Black Nights" l 9 lines):
them h ard-loving •••
them fine soul sisters .
Tro upe, ~ui ncy: f r om Bmbr yo, Barlenmir Hous e, 1972 .
/ "vJhi te "1 ee kend 11 ( 13 lines ) :
They dep loyed military troops •••
The stock market went up 1~ points ••••
Vesey, Paul(Samuel Allen): from Soon, One Morning(Herbert Hill, ed.),
Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.
/"To Satch,.(2 lines):
And look over at God and say
Bow about thR.t!
Walker, Alice: from Revolutionary etunias & Other Poems, Harvourt,Brace,
Javanovich, Inc., 1973.
11
/ "Rage ( , lines):
The silence be tween your words •••
like a sword
�Walker, , Margaret : from For My People , Yale Uni verS""i ty .t'ress, 1942 .
/ "Bad- Man Stagolee 11 (2 lines):
Till he k illed that cop and turned out bad • ••
2,..
Hid dat blade he wore unnerneaf his shirt •••
"For My People 11 ( 13 lines) :
For my people everywhere •••
j
• • • now rise and take control.
"Poppa Chicken 11 ( 2 lines):
Bought his pardon in a year; • ••
f
The gals cried Lawdy! Lawd!
"The Struggle Staggers Us 11 (2 lines):
Struggle between the morning and the night;
This marks our years; this settles, too, our plight
11
(
we Have been Believere 11 (3 l i nes):
• • • b eli eving in our burden s •• •
• • • wi th a strange insistency.
Wa shington , Romenetha: from Side s of the River(Redmond), 1969 .
J.
11
.1:ta t Race 11 ( 2 l i nes ):
Scurrying f rom sun ~ o sun •..
I protest but still I run.
I
Watkins, Lucien B. : from Negro Poets and Their PoemstKerlin), 1935
11
A Prayer of the Race That God Made Black" ( 2 lines J:
.
God save us in ~hy Heaven, where all is well!
We come slow--struggling up the Hills of Hell!
White, Joseph: from Burning Speartsee listing above), 1963
..,,/ "Black
s a Soul" (5 lines):
Where black-eyed peas~ greens are stored ••
1
••• &
I'm from Look Back.
�t
Wrigh't", Richard: from 'l'he Negro Caravan(Brown, Davis, LeeJ, 1970.
t,. "I Have
Seen Black Hands" (3 lines):
I am black and I have seen black hands, •••
••• doubt and hesitation and irresolution.
from American Negro Poetry, Hill & Wang, 1963,Bontemps)
2 "Between
the World and Me 11 ( 18 lines):
• • • dry bones •••
• • • hot sides of death.
finis
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