Anthologies of African American Writing

Rock against the Wind: African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion

A Rock against the Wind

"A Rock against the Wind: African-American Poems and Letters of Love and Passion" . Ed. Lindsay Patterson. Foreword Ruby Dee. Rev. ed. New York: Berkley, 1996. xxiii+194 pp.

First edition published as "A Rock Against the Wind: Black Love Poems" (1973)

Foreword / Ruby Dee -- A Love Poem / Etheridge Knight -- A Small Contradiction / Pat Parker -- Haiku / Sonia Sanchez -- To Mareta / Herschel Lee Johnson -- Reply / Naomi Long Madgett -- My House / Nikki Giovanni -- For a New Love / Cicely Rodway -- Poem No. 11 / Sonia Sanchez -- Untitled / C. Tillery Banks -- When I'm Close to Carol, I Gotta Move ... / Richard D. Gordon -- Song in the Night / Irma McClaurin -- Love Song / Henry Dumas -- Plagiarism for a Trite Love Poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Black Woman, You / Clay A. Fielding -- Soul Sister / Richard D. Gordon -- I Love You / Bernard V. Finney, Jr. -- Infinity / Phyllis M. Bynum -- Poem No. 21 / Doughtry Long -- Man Thinking About Woman / Haki Madhubuti and Don L. Lee -- When Sue Wears Red / Langston Hughes -- Nobody Says Baby / Beverley Wiggins Wells -- Poem / Pearl Cleage -- Poem for Joyce / Johnie Scott -- You Come to Me / Quincy Troupe -- Chocolate Man / Phyllis M. Bynum -- It's a Boy! / Micki Grant -- New Blues from a Brown Baby / Saundra Sharp -- Nesting / Saundra Sharp -- Love -- The Beginning and The End / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Never Offer Your Heart to Someone Who Eats Hearts / Alice Walker -- Ballad / Sonia Sanchez -- Love after Love / Derek Walcott -- Moat / Richard D. Gordon -- On Learning / Mae Jackson -- Free Yourself / C. Tillery Banks -- Let Go and Love / Linda Cousins -- Drinking Beer / Pearl Cleage -- For a Black Lover / Lindsay Patterson -- Relationship / Sandra San-Viki Chapman -- I Am Somebody / Ruby Dee -- Appreciation / Dorothy E. King -- I Want to Sing / Nikki Giovanni -- Pulled Tightly / Bernard V. Finney, Jr. -- Talking That Talk / Doughtry Long -- A Love Poem / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- That Kiss / Dorothy E. King -- Marriage Counsel / Ruby Dee -- Moonbeams / Elizabeth I. Roberts -- Before the Act / Barbara-Marie Green -- !!!He!!! / Emily M. Newsome -- Black Love in the Afternoon / Dennis Rahiim Watson -- Seduction / Nikki Giovanni -- Good to Be in You / Dudley Randall -- Autumn Poems / Nikki Giovanni -- The Doorway That We Hide Behind / Dee Dee McNeil -- Flowers / Sybil Kein -- Please Disturb / Dorothy Meekins -- One Nighter / Darnley Osborne -- Morning Thoughts / Dorothy E. King -- Untitled / Pat Parker -- "If I Go All the Way Without You Where Would I Go?" / Ntozake Shange -- Perfumed Moments with My Man / Dee Dee McNeil -- My Tongue Paints a Path / Eugene Redmond -- Quietly / Herbert Woodward Martin -- New Face / Alice Walker -- His Shirt / Rita Dove -- I Just Couldn't / Hasna Muhammad -- A Quarter for Your Thoughts / Jaleelah Karriem -- Revelation / Hilton A. Vaughan -- I'm Beginning to See Lights ... / Lindsay Patterson -- Young Tender / Darnley Osborne -- Serial Monogamy / Ntozake Shange -- Secret Life / Pearl Cleage -- Can You? / Linda Cousins -- For the Men Who Ask: Will You Write a Poem for Me? / Beverly Wiggins Wells -- Loving Too Much / Dennis Rahiim Watson -- Long Glances / Micki Grant -- Be Warned / Lindsay Patterson -- End Notes / Haki Madhubuti and Don L. Lee -- For the Count / Mae Jackson -- CJ -- The End / Dorothy E. King -- The Lie / Maya Angelou -- Last Poem I'm Gonna Write Bout Us / Sonia Sanchez -- Reaching Back / Saundra Sharp -- Freedom / Emily M. Newsome -- Somewhere in the City / Naomi Long Madgett -- Souvenirs / Dudley Randall -- Jazzy Vanity / Richard W. Thomas -- Reflections on a Lost Love / Haki Madhubuti and Don L. Lee -- Why? / Darnley Osborne -- For Your Information B.W. / Lindsay Patterson -- Love Equation / Hazel Clayton Harrison -- Starting Over / Dorothy Meekins -- Mountain Suite in Winter / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Your Place / Emily M. Newsome -- A Place Called Comfort / Dorothy Meekins -- Old Love / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Reaching / Dorothy E. King -- Time. Time / Ruby Dee -- Love Tight / Ted Joans -- Treating My Lady Right / Dennis Rahiim Watson -- Untitled / C. Tillery Banks -- Love Being Loved / Linda Cousins -- Now and Here After / Allison West -- Senior Love / Barbara-Marie Green -- Love Letter / Micki Grant -- Letter to My Overseas Lover / Saundra Sharp -- Love Letter #67 / Carl Cook -- Love Letter: Dreaming and Thanks for the Loving / Pearl Duncan -- Letter: Father to Son / Allison West -- Letter: Father to Daughter / Allison West -- Letter from a Wife / S. Carolyn Reese -- Love Letter #15 / Carl Cook.

• [Kinnamon 1997: 471, cites first ed. of 1973 only]

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