| Description |
86 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of poetry by twentieth-century black Americans expressing what it is like to be black in the United States. Includes capsule biographies of the poets. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Black all day. Awareness / Don L. Lee -- Black is best / Larry Thompson -- Color / Langston Hughes -- Black all day / Raymond Richard Patterson -- Blackberry sweet / Dudley Randall -- The alarm clock / Mari Evans -- We own the night / Imamu Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Image / Henry Dumas -- Idle chatter / Charles Cooper -- Word poem (perhaps worth considering) ; Poem (no name no. 2) / Nikki Giovanni. |
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I am a poet. Washiri (poet) / Kattie M. Cumbo) -- A black poetry day / Alicia Loy Johnson -- The truth / Ted Joans -- The truth is quite messy ; An historic moment / William J. Harris -- For some poets / Mae Jackson -- The birth of a poet / Quandra Prettyman -- The distant drum / Calvin C. Hernton -- In defense of black poets / Conrad Kent Rivers -- My poem / Nikki Giovanni. |
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Perhaps you will remember. Ali / Djangatolum (Lloyd M. Corbin, Jr.) -- Langston / Mari Evans -- Martin Luther King Jr. / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Assassination / Don L. Lee -- The funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Nikki Giovanni -- My ace of spades / Ted Joans -- It was a funky deal / Etheridge Knight -- Aardvark / Julia Fields -- Malcolm / Kattie M. Cumbo -- I remember / Mae Jackson -- October 16: The raid / Langston Hughes. |
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Right on: White America. America / Henry Dumas -- America / Bobb Hamilton -- Watts / Conrad Kent Rivers -- right on: white America / Sonia Sanchez -- Children's rhymes / Langston Hughes -- Of man and nature / Horace Mungin -- Feeding the lions / Norman Jordan -- Dark people / Kattie M. Cumbo -- You know, Joe / Ray Durem -- Vietnam #4 / Clarence Major -- Vive noir! / Mari Evans -- War / William Alfred MacLean, Jr. |
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But here I am. The new integrationist ; Taxes / Don L. Lee -- I/wonder why / Tom Poole -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Blues / Quandra Prettyman -- Blues / Horace Mungin -- Get up, blues / James A. Emanuel -- The blues today / Mae Jackson -- Sometimes on my way back down to the block ; Man I thought you was talking another language that day / Victor Hernandez Cruz. |
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You are loved, awake or dreaming. From: Cities #8 ; 224 stoop / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Number 5: December / David Henderson -- Frightened flower ; On wearing ears / William J. Harris -- A love song / Raymond Richard Patterson -- I used to wrap my white doll up in / Mae Jackson -- Childhood / Margaret Walker -- From: Glimpses #xii / Lawrence McGaugh -- Crawl into bed ; Lullaby / Quandra Prettyman -- Response / Bob Kaufman. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- African American authors.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Adoff, Arnold, compilor.
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Hollingsworth, Alvin C., illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Black out loud. [New York] Macmillan [1970] (OCoLC)576115014 |
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