Anthologies of African American Writing

Dices or Black Bones: Black Voices of the Seventies

"Dices or Black Bones: Black Voices of the Seventies" . Ed. Adam David Miller. Illus. Glenn Myles. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 142 pp.

Contents:
• Al Young / A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
• Al Young / Poetry
• Al Young / A Dance for Li Po
• Al Young / Lemons, Lemons
• Al Young / Dancing in the Laundromat
• Al Young / The Move Continuing
• Al Young / For Joanne in Poland
• Al Young / From: The Offering
• Al Young / Pachuta / A Memoir
• Al Young / Moon-Watching by Lake Chapala
• Al Young / The Song Turning Back into Itself
• Al Young / The Dancer
• Al Young / Birthday Poem
• Al Young / For Poets
• De Leon Harrison / The Seed of Nimrod
• De Leon Harrison / The Room
• De Leon Harrison / Dream #6
• De Leon Harrison / Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
• De Leon Harrison / Some Days/Out Walking Above
• De Leon Harrison / Last Night I Died
• De Leon Harrison / Some Pseudo Philanthropist
• De Leon Harrison / Poem for Herbie Nichols
• De Leon Harrison / A Collage for Richard Davis
• De Leon Harrison / Two Short Forms
• De Leon Harrison / Yellow
• Sarah Webster Fabio / Evil Is No Black Thing
• Sarah Webster Fabio / All Day We've Longed for Night
• Sarah Webster Fabio / To Turn from Love
• Sarah Webster Fabio / Back into the Garden
• Sarah Webster Fabio / Work It Out
• Calvin C. Hernton / The Distant Drum
• Calvin C. Hernton / Fall Down
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / Mellow
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / The Story of the Zeros
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / The Electric Cop
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / Poetry Lesson
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / The Trip
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / The May 29th Fool
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / The Dance of the Eight Ways
• Victor Hernandez Cruz / from Doing Poetry
• conyus / I Rode with Geronimo
• conyus / On Gossip behind My Back
• conyus / A Gold Watch Hung in the Sky
• conyus / Upon Leaving the Parole Board Hearing
• Lucille Clifton / The Meeting after the Savior Came
• Lucille Clifton / My Mama Moved among the Days
• Lucille Clifton / Miss Rosie
• Lucille Clifton / The 1st
• Lucille Clifton / Good Times
• Lucille Clifton / In the Inner City
• Lucille Clifton / Those Boys That Ran Together
• Lucille Clifton / For De Lawd
• Lucille Clifton / If I Stand in My Window
• Lucille Clifton / Ca'line's Prayer
• Lucille Clifton / Admonitions
• A. B. Spellman / 1 1/2 Seasons
• A. B. Spellman / The Beautiful Day #2
• A. B. Spellman / For My Unborn and Wretched Children
• A. B. Spellman / Sequel to the Above
• A. B. Spellman / The Joel Blues
• A. B. Spellman / Jelly Wrote
• A. B. Spellman / John Coltrane
• A. B. Spellman / When Black People Are
• A. B. Spellman / In Orangeburg My Brothers Did
• N. H. Pritchard / As
• N. H. Pritchard / Aswelay
• N. H. Pritchard / #
• N. H. Pritchard / Alcoved Agonies
• N. H. Pritchard / :
• N. H. Pritchard / -.-.-.
• N. H. Pritchard / Parcy Jutridge
• N. H. Pritchard / Ovo
• Etheridge Knight / To Make a Poem in Prison
• Etheridge Knight / Crazy Pigeon
• Etheridge Knight / the Warden Said to Me the Other Day
• Etheridge Knight / Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
• Etheridge Knight / He Sees through Stone
• Etheridge Knight / The Idea of Ancestry
• Etheridge Knight / The Violent Space
• Etheridge Knight / On Universalism
• Etheridge Knight / For Malcolm, a Year After
• Etheridge Knight / It Was a Funky Deal
• Etheridge Knight / For Langston Hughes
• Etheridge Knight / Cell Song
• William Anderson / There's Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus
• William Anderson / The February Rain Is Falling
• William Anderson / The Huey Newton Trial
• David Henderson / Felix of the Silent Forest
• David Henderson / Boston Road Blues
• David Henderson / Bopping
• David Henderson / Fork of the West River (5)
• David Henderson / So We Went to Harlem
• Patricia Parker / From Cavities of Bones
• Patricia Parker / I Followed a Path
• Patricia Parker / Assassination
• Patricia Parker / A Family Tree
• Patricia Parker / Sometimes My Husband
• Adam David Miller / The Hungry Black Child
• Adam David Miller / Crack in the Wall Holds Flowers
• Adam David Miller / The Africa Thing
• Clarence Major / This Temple
• Clarence Major / Tud
• Clarence Major / Longlegs
• Clarence Major / Dismal Moment, Passing
• Clarence Major / Flesh Line, the Space
• Glenn Myles / Express Rider
• Glenn Myles / A Poem for Jill
• Glenn Myles / When New Green Tales
• Glenn Myles / Percy
• Ishmael Reed / I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
• Ishmael Reed / Badman of the Guest Professor
• Ishmael Reed / Beware: Do Not Read This Poem

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• A poetry anthology (Kinnamon 1997: 470).

• The editor, Adam David Miller (1922-2020) (known as "AD"), died at age 98 in Berkeley, CA. He grew up in the Jim Crow era in South Carolina: his first memoir, "Ticket to Exile" (2007), recounts "how, at age 19, he was jailed for passing a note to a white girl" ("Remembering Poet and Memoirist Adam David Miller" Berkleyside.com 12 Nov. 2020).
• Miller served in the US Navy from 1942-46 and attended college on the G.I. Bill, earning an MA in English from UC, Berkeley in 1953 (Wikipedia, sv "Adam David Miller"; accessed 6 Feb. 2021).
• In his second memoir, "Fall Rising," Miller recounts how "he took a Black drama group, the Aldridge Players West [launched in San Francisco in the 1960s], into the deep south at a time when that was still not done." Miller was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in 1973-74 and "traveled widely in Africa, the Caribbean and Mexico, as well as leading many workshops in schools and colleges in the US" ("Remembering Poet and Memoirist Adam David Miller" Berkleyside.com 12 Nov. 2020).
• In addition to his two memoirs, Miller published five books of poetry, beginning with "Neighborhood and Other Poems" (1992) (Wikipedia).
• In 1994, his collection "Forever Afternoon" was published by Michigan State UP as the winner of the inaugural Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award in 1993 (open to African American poets for a previously unpublished collection of poetry).

Kinnamon 1997: 470]

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