Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
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Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
This edition
"Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present." Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004. xxxii+286 pp.
Table of contents
● Joanne V. Gabbin / Preface
● Joanne V. Gabbin / Introduction
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Second Sermon on the Warpland
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Winnie
● Gwendolyn Brooks / A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.
● Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Near-Johannesburg Boy
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Uncle Seagram
● Samuel Allen / The Apple Trees in Sussex
● Samuel Allen / A Moment, Please
● Samuel Allen / The Lingering Doubt
● Samuel Allen / To Satch
● Adam David Miller / My Trip
● Adam David Miller /Forever Afternoon
● Adam David Miller / Song of the Wheel
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Girl at the Window
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Lyric: I Am Looking at Music
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Children
● Naomi Long Madgett / Reluctant Light
● Naomi Long Madgett / The Last Happy Day
● Naomi Long Madgett / Packrat
● Dolores Kendrick / For Gwendolyn Brooks: As I Civilize a Space
● Dolores Kendrick / Where the Grieved Ones Sat
● Dolores Kendrick / The Drowned River
● Raymond R. Patterson / Harlem Suite
● Raymond R. Patterson / Forerunner
● Raymond R. Patterson / Baobab
● Alvin Aubert / Nat Turner in the Clearing
● Alvin Aubert / James Baldwin, 1924-1967
● Alvin Aubert / December 1982/Detroit
● Amiri Baraka / I Am
● Amiri Baraka / In the Funk World
● Amiri Baraka / John Coltrane (1926-1967)
● Sonia Sanchez / Ballad
● Sonia Sanchez / Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele
● Sonia Sanchez / Under a Soprano Sky
● Sonia Sanchez / For Sweet Honey in the Rock
● Sonia Sanchez / Philidelphia: Spring, 1985
● Sonia Sanchez / For Sister Gwen Brooks
● Lucille Clifton / dialysis
● Lucille Clifton / donor
● Lucille Clifton / 1994
● Jayne Cortez / There It Is
● Jayne Cortez / The Guitars I Used to Know
● Jayne Cortez / The Heavy Headed Dance
● Eugene B. Redmond / New York Seizures
● Eugene B. Redmond / 11-haiku-poem for a magnificent million
● Michael S. Harper / Dear John, Dear Coltrane
● Michael S. Harper / Last Affair: Bessie’s Blues Song
● Michael S. Harper / High Modes: Vision as Ritual: Confirmation
● Askia M. Toure / Summer Worlds: A Mythic Landscape
● Askia M. Toure / Aboriginal Elegy: The Once and Future Queen
● Askia M. Toure / O Lord of the Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity
● Sterling D. Plumpp / Be-Bop
● Sterling D. Plumpp / History, Hollers, and Horn
● Sterling D. Plumpp / Ornate with Smoke
● Sterling D. Plumpp / From Mary
● Toi Derricotte / The Minks
● Toi Derricotte / After a Reading at Black College
● Toi Derricotte / For Black Women Who Are Afraid
● Everett Hoagland / From Ground Zero
● Everett Hoagland / How Could All That Have Happened Here?
● Everett Hoagland / Time Break
● Haki R. Madhubuti / Books as Answer
● Haki R. Madhubuti / The B Network
● Haki R. Madhubuti / Mothers
● Bernice Johnson Reagon / Greed
● Bernice Johnson Reagon / They Are All Falling around Me
● Nikki Giovanni / The Wrong Kitchen
● Nikki Giovanni / Legacies
● Nikki Giovanni / Nikki-Rosa
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / I Have Felt the Gulf: Mississippi
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / Journey
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / After the Report from Iron Mountain
● Lorenzo Thomas / Dangerous Doubts
● Lorenzo Thomas / L’Argent
● Lorenzo Thomas / Back in the Day
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Songs for My Father
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Sharing is hereditary
● Kalamu ya Salaam / The Call of the Wild
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Directions for Understanding Modern Jazz Criticism
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Taproots
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Ambrosia
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Remains
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Spookism
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Contraband
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Coming Ashore
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Jazz Rain
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Padded Steps/Sister Song (a litany)
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Wisdom Is
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Memory Waves
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Roy Campanella: January, 1958
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Bringing Back the Draft
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Whispers, Secrets, and Promises
● Mona Lisa Saloy / The “N” Word
● Mona Lisa Saloy / This Poem Is for You, My Sister
● Mona Lisa Saloy / We’ve Come This Far
● Afaa Michael Weaver / Thelonius
● Afaa Michael Weaver / The Poets
● Rita Dove / Freedom Ride
● Rita Dove / Claudette Colvin Goes to Work
● Rita Dove / Rosa
● Rita Dove / The Enactment
● Opal Moore / Eulogy for Sister
● Opal Moore / The Taste of Life Going On
● Cornelius Eady / How I Got Born
● Cornelius Eady / Composite
● Cornelius Eady / Birthing
● Carole B. Weatherford / The Tan Chanteuse
● Carole B. Weatherford / From Birmingham to Bristol in a Boxcar
● Carole B. Weatherford / Queen Ijo’s Blues
● Lenard D. Moore / Airport
● Lenard D. Moore / Black Girl Tap Dancing
● Sharon Strange / Offering
● Sharon Strange / Night Work
● Sharon Strange / Hunger
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Distance
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Memorization
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Geography
● Elizabeth Alexander / The Josephine Baker Museum
● Elizabeth Alexander / At the Beach
● Elizabeth Alexander / Passage
● Jabari Asim / 1st Lt. Vernon J. Baker: Hero on the Hill (Company C, 370th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division)
● Jabari Asim / Let’s Just Tell It
● Jabari Asim / Baby’s Beath
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Fireflies in a Jar
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Thursday Poem
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Subterranean Night-Colored Magus
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
● John Keene / After C (3): Tayloriana
● John Keene / The Haymarket
● Natasha Trethewey / Limen
● Natasha Trethewey / Bellocq’s Ophelia
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
● Major Jackson / Indian Song
● Major Jackson / Block Party
● Major Jackson / To Afaa Michael S. Weaver
● Major Jackson / Some Kind of Crazy
● Kevin Young / Quivira City Limits
● Kevin Young / Everywhere Is out of Town
● Kevin Young / East Jesus
● Garrett McDowell / Poetic Retrospective: A Blooming in the Valley
● Notes on the Poets
● Acknowledgements
● Joanne V. Gabbin / Introduction
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Second Sermon on the Warpland
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Winnie
● Gwendolyn Brooks / A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon.
● Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Near-Johannesburg Boy
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Uncle Seagram
● Samuel Allen / The Apple Trees in Sussex
● Samuel Allen / A Moment, Please
● Samuel Allen / The Lingering Doubt
● Samuel Allen / To Satch
● Adam David Miller / My Trip
● Adam David Miller /Forever Afternoon
● Adam David Miller / Song of the Wheel
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Girl at the Window
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Lyric: I Am Looking at Music
● Pinkie Gordon Lane / Children
● Naomi Long Madgett / Reluctant Light
● Naomi Long Madgett / The Last Happy Day
● Naomi Long Madgett / Packrat
● Dolores Kendrick / For Gwendolyn Brooks: As I Civilize a Space
● Dolores Kendrick / Where the Grieved Ones Sat
● Dolores Kendrick / The Drowned River
● Raymond R. Patterson / Harlem Suite
● Raymond R. Patterson / Forerunner
● Raymond R. Patterson / Baobab
● Alvin Aubert / Nat Turner in the Clearing
● Alvin Aubert / James Baldwin, 1924-1967
● Alvin Aubert / December 1982/Detroit
● Amiri Baraka / I Am
● Amiri Baraka / In the Funk World
● Amiri Baraka / John Coltrane (1926-1967)
● Sonia Sanchez / Ballad
● Sonia Sanchez / Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele
● Sonia Sanchez / Under a Soprano Sky
● Sonia Sanchez / For Sweet Honey in the Rock
● Sonia Sanchez / Philidelphia: Spring, 1985
● Sonia Sanchez / For Sister Gwen Brooks
● Lucille Clifton / dialysis
● Lucille Clifton / donor
● Lucille Clifton / 1994
● Jayne Cortez / There It Is
● Jayne Cortez / The Guitars I Used to Know
● Jayne Cortez / The Heavy Headed Dance
● Eugene B. Redmond / New York Seizures
● Eugene B. Redmond / 11-haiku-poem for a magnificent million
● Michael S. Harper / Dear John, Dear Coltrane
● Michael S. Harper / Last Affair: Bessie’s Blues Song
● Michael S. Harper / High Modes: Vision as Ritual: Confirmation
● Askia M. Toure / Summer Worlds: A Mythic Landscape
● Askia M. Toure / Aboriginal Elegy: The Once and Future Queen
● Askia M. Toure / O Lord of the Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity
● Sterling D. Plumpp / Be-Bop
● Sterling D. Plumpp / History, Hollers, and Horn
● Sterling D. Plumpp / Ornate with Smoke
● Sterling D. Plumpp / From Mary
● Toi Derricotte / The Minks
● Toi Derricotte / After a Reading at Black College
● Toi Derricotte / For Black Women Who Are Afraid
● Everett Hoagland / From Ground Zero
● Everett Hoagland / How Could All That Have Happened Here?
● Everett Hoagland / Time Break
● Haki R. Madhubuti / Books as Answer
● Haki R. Madhubuti / The B Network
● Haki R. Madhubuti / Mothers
● Bernice Johnson Reagon / Greed
● Bernice Johnson Reagon / They Are All Falling around Me
● Nikki Giovanni / The Wrong Kitchen
● Nikki Giovanni / Legacies
● Nikki Giovanni / Nikki-Rosa
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / I Have Felt the Gulf: Mississippi
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / Journey
● Jerry W. Ward Jr. / After the Report from Iron Mountain
● Lorenzo Thomas / Dangerous Doubts
● Lorenzo Thomas / L’Argent
● Lorenzo Thomas / Back in the Day
● Yusef Komunyakaa / Songs for My Father
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Sharing is hereditary
● Kalamu ya Salaam / The Call of the Wild
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Directions for Understanding Modern Jazz Criticism
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Taproots
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Ambrosia
● Dorothy Marie Rice / Remains
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Spookism
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Contraband
● Lamont B. Steptoe / Coming Ashore
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Jazz Rain
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Padded Steps/Sister Song (a litany)
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Wisdom Is
● Quo Vadis Gex-Breaux / Memory Waves
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Roy Campanella: January, 1958
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Bringing Back the Draft
● E. Ethelbert Miller / Whispers, Secrets, and Promises
● Mona Lisa Saloy / The “N” Word
● Mona Lisa Saloy / This Poem Is for You, My Sister
● Mona Lisa Saloy / We’ve Come This Far
● Afaa Michael Weaver / Thelonius
● Afaa Michael Weaver / The Poets
● Rita Dove / Freedom Ride
● Rita Dove / Claudette Colvin Goes to Work
● Rita Dove / Rosa
● Rita Dove / The Enactment
● Opal Moore / Eulogy for Sister
● Opal Moore / The Taste of Life Going On
● Cornelius Eady / How I Got Born
● Cornelius Eady / Composite
● Cornelius Eady / Birthing
● Carole B. Weatherford / The Tan Chanteuse
● Carole B. Weatherford / From Birmingham to Bristol in a Boxcar
● Carole B. Weatherford / Queen Ijo’s Blues
● Lenard D. Moore / Airport
● Lenard D. Moore / Black Girl Tap Dancing
● Sharon Strange / Offering
● Sharon Strange / Night Work
● Sharon Strange / Hunger
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Distance
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Memorization
● Adisa Vera Beatty / Geography
● Elizabeth Alexander / The Josephine Baker Museum
● Elizabeth Alexander / At the Beach
● Elizabeth Alexander / Passage
● Jabari Asim / 1st Lt. Vernon J. Baker: Hero on the Hill (Company C, 370th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division)
● Jabari Asim / Let’s Just Tell It
● Jabari Asim / Baby’s Beath
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Fireflies in a Jar
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Thursday Poem
● Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Renegade) / Subterranean Night-Colored Magus
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
● John Keene / After C (3): Tayloriana
● John Keene / The Haymarket
● Natasha Trethewey / Limen
● Natasha Trethewey / Bellocq’s Ophelia
● Natasha Trethewey / Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
● Major Jackson / Indian Song
● Major Jackson / Block Party
● Major Jackson / To Afaa Michael S. Weaver
● Major Jackson / Some Kind of Crazy
● Kevin Young / Quivira City Limits
● Kevin Young / Everywhere Is out of Town
● Kevin Young / East Jesus
● Garrett McDowell / Poetic Retrospective: A Blooming in the Valley
● Notes on the Poets
● Acknowledgements
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A0384