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245 00 Angles of ascent :|ba Norton anthology of contemporary
African American poetry /|cedited by Charles Henry Rowell.
250 First edition
264 1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Co.,|c©2013.
300 liii, 617 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Includes index.
504 Includes index.
505 00 |gPart 1:|tPrecursors --|tModernists, 1940s to 1960s --
|tGwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) --|tThe Sundays of Satin-
Legs Smith --|tRiot --|tBoy breaking glass --|gRobert
Hayden (1913-1980) --|tFor a young artist --|tElegies for
Paradise Valley --|tA letter from Phillis Wheatley --
|tMelvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) --|gfrom|tHarlem Gallery --
|tChi --|tThe 1960s and beyond --|tThe Black arts movement
--|tAmiri Baraka (1934- ) --|tBlack art --|tIn memory of
radio --|tAn agony. as now. --|tA poem for Black hearts --
|tAM/TRAK --|tMari Evans (1923- ) --|tI am a Black woman -
-|tNikki Giovanni (1943- ) --|tNikki-Rosa --|tEgo tripping
(there may be a reason why) --|tBobb Hamilton (1928-1998)
--|gPoem to a nigger cop --|tDavid Henderson (1942- ) --
|tDowntown-boy uptown --|tCalvin C. Hernton (1932-2001) --
|tThe distant drum --|tHaki Madhubuti (1942- ) --|tBut he
was cool, or : he even stopped for green lights --|tLarry
Neal (1937-1981) --|tMalcolm X -- an autobiography --
|tCarolyn Rodgers (1940-2010) --|thow i got ovah --
|tBreakthrough --|tSonia Sanchez (1934- ) --|tHomecoming -
-|tMalcolm --|tblk/rhetoric --|tA poem for my father --
|tPoem no. 3 --|tTowhomitmayconcern --|tA.B. Spellman
(1935- ) --|tI looked & saw history caught --|tEdward S.
Spriggs (1934- ) --|tFor Brother Malcolm.
505 80 |tThe 1960s and beyond : outside the Black arts movement -
-|tGerald Barrax (1933- ) --|tEagle. Tiger. Whale. --
|tKing : April 4, 1968 --|tLucille Clifton (1936-2010) --
|tlazarus --|tleda 1,2,3 --|tfar memory --|tJayne Cortez
(1936- ) --|tSolo finger solo --|tIn the morning --
|tMichael S. Harper (1938- ) --|tThe yellow dishes --
|tYaddo, Mrs. Ames & Black men --|tColiseum pool, 1960
(dream) --|tDon't explain : a ballad played by Dexter
Gordon --|tJune Jordan (1936-2002) --|tWhat would I do
white? --|tCurrent events --|tAdreinne's poem : on the
dialectics of the diatonic scale --|tBob Kaufman (1925-
1986) --|gfrom|tJail poems --|tBattle report --|tI have
folded my sorrows --|tWalking Parker home --|tAfrican
dream --|tEtheridge Knight (1931-1991) --|tThe violent
space (or when your sister sleeps around for money) --
|tThe idea of ancestry --|tHard rock returns to prison
from the hospital for the criminal insane --|tBelly song -
-|tAudre Lorde (1934-1992) --|tCoal --|tTo my daughter the
junkie on a train --|tFishing the white water --|tClarence
Major (1936- ) --|tOn watching a caterpillar become a
butterfly --|tThe great horned owl --|tClay Bison in a
cave --|tTerritorial claims --|tColleen J. McElroy (1935-
) --|tParis subway tango --|tCrossing the Rubicon at
Seventy --|tIshmael Reed (1938- ) --|tI am a cowboy in the
boat of Ra --|tThe Pope replies to the Ayatollah Khomeini
--|tEd Roberson (1939- )|tSit in what city we're in --
|tEclogue --|tNtozake Shange (1948- ) --|tmy father is a
retired magician --|tnappy edges (a cross country sojourn)
--|tPrimus St. John (1939- ) --|tThe cigar maker --|tTrap
a Congo --|tCatch and release --|tLorenzo Thomas (1944-
2005) --|tOnion bucket --|tDowntown boom --|tAlice Walker
(1944- ) --|tRevolutionary Petunias --|tOn stripping bark
from myself --|tSherley Anne Williams (1944-1999) --|gfrom
|tletters from a New England Negro --|tMrs. Josiah Harris
/ August 25, 1867 --|tMiss Ann Spencer / August 30, 1867 ;
October 22, 1867 ; November 24, 1867 ; February 15, 1868 -
-|tAl Young (1939- ) --|tThe song turning back into
itself₃ --|tRavel : Bolero --|tA dance for Ma Rainey.
505 80 |gPart 2:|tHeirs --|tFirst wave, post-1960s --|tAi (1947-
2010) --|tHoover, Edgar J. --|tConversations --|tThe
curious journey of Ulysses Paradeece after a hurricane --
|tCyrus Cassells (1957- ) --|tSally Hemings to Thomas
Jefferson --|tWild Indigo, because --|tThe white iris
beautifies me --|tWanda Coleman (1946- ) --|tArs poetica -
-|tBedtime story --|tAmerican Sonnet (17) --|tAmerican
sonnet (54) --|tToi Derricotte (1941- ) --|tHoly cross
hospital --|tThe weakness --|tInvisible dreams --|tThe
minks --|tMelvine Dixon (1950-1992) --|tClimbing
Montmartre --|tParing potatoes --|tTurning forty in the
90's --|tHeartbeats --|tRita Dove (1952- ) --|tNestor's
bathtub --|tHistory --|tThe fish in the stone --|tDaystar
--|tHeroes --|tAmerican smooth --|tHattie McDaniel arrives
at the coconut grove --|tThe bridgetower --|tCornelius
Eady (1954- ) --|tPhoto of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-
Turnpike, 1968 --|tCrows in a strong wind --|tChristopher
Gilbert (1949-2007) --|tShe --|tAbsentee landlord --
|tTouching --|tC.S. Giscombe (1950- ) --|tThe northernmost
road --|tThe 1200N road, going East --|tJewelle Gomez
(1948- ) --|tMy chakabuku mama (a comic tale) --|tEl beso
--|tAngela Jackson (1951- ) --|tThe love of travellers
(Doris, Sandra and Sheryl) --|tTwo trains --|tIda rewrites
--|tGayl Jones (1949- ) --|tDeep song --|tFoxes --
|tComposition with guitar and apples --|tPatricia Spears
Jones (1951- ) --|tWearing my red silk Chinese jacket --
|tThanksgiving --|tYusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) --|tVenus's-
flytraps.
505 80 |tMy father's love letters --|t"You and I are
disappearing" --|tFacing it --|tBlue light lounge sutra
for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel --|tLingo -
-|g[The|tjawbone of an ass. a shank] --|tThe devil comes
on horseback --|tRequiem --|tNathaniel Mackey (1947- ) --
|tSong of the andoumboulou : 16 --|tGlenn on Monk's
Mountain --|tSound and severance --|tThylias Moss (1954- )
--|tThe day before Kindergarten : Taluca, Alabama, 1959 --
|tTimex remembered --|tOne for all newborns --|tMulberry
breath as proof of the wave in form of question --|tThe
culture of near miss --|tMe and Bubble went to Memphis --
|tHarryette Mullen (1953- ) --|tUnspoken --|tAll she wrote
--|tBlack Nikes --|t[if your complexion is a mess] --|t[Of
a girl, in white] --|tMarilyn Nelson (1946- ) --|tMama's
promise --|tDaughter's, 1900 --|tSecond wave, post-1960s -
-|tElizabeth Alexander (1962- ) --|tThe Venus hottentot
(1825) --|tBoston year --|tThe blue whale --|tThomas
Sayers Ellis (1963- ) --|tSticks --|tView-master --
|tBright moments --|tAll their stanzas look alike --|tMr.
Dynamite splits --|tFirst grade, all over again --
|tGodzilla's avocado --|tForrest Hammer (1956- ) --
|tLesson --|tIn the middle --|gfrom|tGoldsboro narratives,
#4, #7, #28 --|tKendra Hamilton (1958- ) --|tThe science
of wearing a dress --|tBelle's promenade : Nassau Street,
Princeton --|tMyronn Hardy (1972- ) --|tUndertones --|tOn
a beach : my life --|tThe headless Saints --|tMaking stars
with Jacob Lawrence --|tTerrance Hayes (1971- ) --|tWhat I
am --|tAt Pegasus --|tDerrick poem (the lost world) --
|tTouch --|tWind in a box --|tMajor Jackson (1968- ) --
|tDon Pullen at the Zanzibar Blue Jazz Café --|tSome kind
of crazy --|gfrom|tUrban renewal :|gviii.|tBlock party ;
|gxvi. ; xxi.
505 80 |tHonorée Fanonne Jeffers (1967- ) --|tThe gospel of
barbecue --|tFast skirt blues --|tHagar to Sarai --|tThe
wife of Lot before the fire --|tA. Van Jordan (1965- ) --
|tRegina Brown hears voices, kills son week before
Christmas, December 18, 1996 --|tfrom --|tThe Flash
reverses time --|tBlack light --|gfrom|tthought clouds --
|tMixed couple, 1908 --|tDiscovering the camera --|tCarl
Phillips (1959- ) --|tBlue --|tX --|tLeda, after the swan
--|tAs from a quiver of arrows --|tFretwork --|tSpeak low
--|tCivilization --|tReginald Shepherd (1963-2008) --
|tOrpheus plays the Bronx --|tHow people disappear --
|tSkin trade --|tIcarus on Fire island --|tHomeric interim
--|tPatricia Smith (1955- ) --|tPrologue -- and then she
owns you --|tShe see what it sees --|tUp on the roof --
|tDon't drink the water --|tSharan Strange (1959- ) --
|tChildhood --|tFroggy's class --|tLast supper --|tNatasha
Trethewey (1966- ) --|tFlounder --|tLimen --|tBellocq's
Ophelia --|tLetter home --|tElegy for the native guards --
|tPastoral --|tIncident --|tMyth --|tKevin Young (1970- )
--|tLetters from the North Star --|tEddie Priest's
barbershop & notary --|tThe game --|tFor the Confederate
dead --|tCrowning --|tThird wave, post-1960s --|tJericho
Brown (1976- ) --|tTrack 1 : lush life --|tPrayer of the
backhanded --|tTrack 4 : reflections --|tTrack 5 :
|tSummertime --|tMichael Sibble Collins (1959- ) --|tSix
sketches : when a soul breaks --|tPoetry --|tBryan, Texas
procession --|tKyle Dargan (1980- ) --|tSearch for Robert
Hayden --|tMicrophone fiend --|tPalinode, once removed --
|tMan of the family --|tCamille T. Dungy (1972- ) --|tWhat
to eat, and what to drink, and what to leave for poison --
|tCleaning.
505 80 |tSwarm --|tThe killed rabbit --|tLyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
(1971- ) --|tGarden --|tLost --|tBop : the North Star --
|tCrystal Williams (1970- ) --|tThis parable, this body --
|tExtinction --|tEnlightenment --|tRonaldo Wilson (1970- )
--|tBrad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, and the Brown Boy's mother --
|tSerena Williams, whiteness, and the act of writing --
|tOn the C train the Black object ponders Amuzati's family
eaten in the Congo.
520 "This landmark anthology brings together for the first
time more than three hundred poems by over seventy African
American poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden,
Ai, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander,
Natasha Tretheway, Major Jackson, and Kevin Young. Angles
of Ascent looks to the immediate past of contemporary
African American poetry, including the influence of
Modernism in the 1950's and the Black Arts Movement of the
1960's, before turning toward the current thriving
literary sceneand beyond. General readers and specialists
alike will treasure this collection for its diverse
readings of humanity by modern and contemporary African
American poets as well as its comprehensive introductions
and commentary."--|cProvided by publisher.
648 0 Geschichte 1940-2010.
648 7 2000 - 2099|2fast
650 0 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.
650 0 American poetry|y21st century.
650 7 American poetry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00807348
650 7 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.|2fast
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650 07 Lyrik.|0(DE-588)4036774-5|2gnd
650 07 Schwarze.|0(DE-588)4116433-7|2gnd
651 7 United States.|0(DE-588)4078704-7|2gnd
700 1 Rowell, Charles H.
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