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050 14 PS591.N4|bO54 2010
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245 04 The 100 best African American poems :|b(*but I cheated) /
|cedited by Nikki Giovanni.
246 3 One hundred best African American poems
246 3 Best 100 African American poems
246 3 Best one hundred African American poems
264 1 Naperville, Illinois :|bSourcebooks MediaFusion,|c2010.
264 4 |c©2010
300 228 pages ;|c22 cm +|e1 audio disc (70 min. : digital ; 4
3/4 in.)
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
370 |cUnited States|2naf
386 |neth|aAfrican Americans|2lcdgt
386 |nnat|aAmericans|2lcdgt
500 Includes index.
500 Accompanying CD: "Featuring performances on CD by Ruby Dee,
Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia
Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many more
friends ..."
505 00 |tDedication: The Aunt /|rMari Evans --|tFor my people /
|rMargaret Walker --|tLeroy /|rAmiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
--|tArs poetica: Nov 7, 2008 /|rL. Lamar Wilson --|tKa'ba
/|rAmiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) --|tWhen you have forgotten
Sunday: the love story ; The sermon on the warpland ; We
real cool /|rGwendolyn Brooks --|tJazz baby is it in you /
|rAntoine Harris --|tI fade into the night /|rAdam Daniel
--|tOld Lem /|rSterling A. Brown --|tI am accused of
tending to the past /|rLucille Clifton --|tI am a black
woman ; Who can be born black? /|rMari Evans --|tNikki-
Rosa ; Knoxville, Tennessee /|rNikki Giovanni --|tThe dry
spell /|rKevin Young --|tThose winter Sundays ; Frederick
Douglass /|rRobert Hayden --|tThe Negro speaks of rivers /
|rLangston Hughes --|tChoosing the blues /|rAngela Jackson
--|tMy father's love letters /|rYusef Komunyakaa --|tThe
creation /|rJames Weldon Johnson --|tA Negro love song /
|rPaul Laurence Dunbar --|tLift every voice and sing ; Go
down death /|rJames Weldon Johnson --|tBetween ourselves /
|rAudre Lorde --|tThe union of two /|rHaki R Madhubuti --
|tBallad of Birmingham /|rDudley Randall --|tA poem to
complement other poems /|rHaki R Madhubuti --|tNo images /
|rWaring Cuney --|tBetween the world and me /|rRichard
Wright --|tTheme for English B ; Harlem Suite ; Easy
boogie ; Dream boogie ; Dream boogie (variation) ; Harlem
; Good morning ; Same in blues ; Island /|rLangston Hughes
--|tThe blue Terrance /|rTerrance Hayes --|tThe mother ; A
Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a
Mississippi mother burns bacon ; The last quatrain of the
ballad of Emmett Till ; A sunset of the city /|rGwendolyn
Brooks --|tThings I carried coming into the world ;
Topography /|rRemica L. Bingham --|tBeneath me ;
Autobiography /|rJericho Brown --|tParable of the sower /
|rPamela Sneed --|tHeritage ; Yet do I marvel ; Incident /
|rCountee Cullen --|tWe wear the mask /|rPaul Laurence
Dunbar --|tTrifle ; The heart of a woman /|rGeorgia
Douglas Johnson --|tWoman with flower /|rNaomi Long
Madgett --|tThe idea of ancestry /|rEtheridge Knight --
|tDon't say goodbye to the porkpie hat /|rLarry Neal --
|tCleaning /|rCamille T. Dungy --|tBoston year /
|rElizabeth Alexander --|tShe wears red /|rJackie Warren-
Moore --|tCommercial break: road-runner, uneasy /|rTim
Seibles --|tBefore making love /|rToi Derricotte --|tBe-
bop /|rSterling Plumpp --|tPersonal letter no. 3 ; Poem at
thirty ; A poem for Sterling Brown /|rSonia Sanchez --
|tMarchers headed for Washington, Baltimore, 1963 /
|rRemica L Bingham --|tAnd yeah: this is a love poem /
|rNikki Giovanni --|tThe carousel /|rGloria C. Oden --
|tOnly everything I own /|rPatricia Smith --|tLot's
daughter dreams of her mother /|rOpal Moore --|tThe
girlfriend's train /|rNikky Finney --|tBack from the arms
of big mama /|rAfaa Michael Weaver --|tMama's promise /
|rMarilyn Nelson --|tBop: a whistling woman /|rLyrae Van
Clief-Stefanon --|tHomage to my hips /|rLucille Clifton --
|tTrain ride /|rKwame Dawes --|tTrain rides /|rNikki
Giovanni --|tA great granddaddy speaks /|rLamont B.
Steptoe --|tEddie Priest's barbershop & notary /|rKevin
Young --|tView of the Library of Congress from Paul
Laurence Dunbar High School /|rThomas Sayers Ellis --
|tDrapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 /|rNatasha
Trethewey --|tSome kind of crazy /|rMajor Jackson --|tFrom
/|rA. Van Jordan --|tFreedom candy /|rE. Ethelbert Miller
--|tThe Supremes /|rCornelius Eady --|tJazz Suite: Nikki
save me /|rMichele Scott --|tNikki, if you were a song /
|rKwame Alexander --|tHaiku /|rDJ Renegade --|tUntitled /
|rNadir Lasana Bomani --|tI wish I could've seen it /
|rLeodis McCray --|tThat and some mo' /|rDJ Renegade --
|tSometime in the summer there's October /|rTony Medina --
|tDancing naked on the floor /|rKwame Alexander --
|tHarriet Tubman's email 2 master /|rTruth Thomas --|tA
river that flows forever ; The rose that grew from
concrete /|rTupac Shakur --|tRochelle /|rReuben Jackson --
|tAll their stanzas look alike /|rThomas Sayers Ellis --
|tFrom the center 2 the edge ; The subtle art of breathing
/|rAsha Bandele --|tSouthern University, 1962 /|rKevin
Young --|tPoetry should ride the bus /|rRuth Forman --
|tBlues for spring /|rColleen J. McElroy --|tThe bicycle
wizard /|rSharan Strange --|tBicycles /|rNikki Giovanni --
|tA clean slate /|rFred D'Aguiar --|tSong through the wall
/|rAkua Lezli Hope --|tA seat saved /|rShana Yarborough --
|tSunday greens /|rRita Dove --|tThe untitled superhero
poem /|rTonya Maria Matthews --|tMercy killing /|rRemica
L. Bingham --|tIf you saw a Negro lady /|rJune Jordan --
|tEgo tripping (there may be a reason why) /|rNikki
Giovanni.
505 00 |gCD contents:|tThe Aunt /|rMari Evans, read by Carolyn H.
Dixon --|tFor my people /|rMargaret Walker, read by Val
Gray Ward --|tWhen you have forgotten Sunday: the love
story /|rGwendolyn Brooks, read by Ruby Dee --|tWe real
cool /|rGwendolyn Brooks, read by the poet --|tWe real
cool /|rGwendolyn Brooks, read by ensemble --|tOld Lem /
|rSterling A. Brown, read by Joanne V. Gabbin --|tI am
accused of tending to the past /|rLucille Clifton, read by
Sue Ott Rowlands --|tI am a black woman /|rMari Evans,
read by Val Gray Ward --|tWho can be born black? /|rMari
Evans, read by Novella Nelson --|tNikki-Rosa /|rNikki
Giovanni, read by Linda Dixon --|tKnoxville, Tennessee /
|rNikki Giovanni, read by the poet --|tThe dry spell /
|rKevin Young, read by Novella Nelson --|tThose winter
Sundays /|rRobert Hayden, read by Carolyn Rude --|tThose
winter Sundays /|rRobert Hayden, read by the poet --|tThe
Negro speaks of rivers /|rLangston Hughes, read by Dr.
Charles Steger --|tThe creation /|rJames Weldon Johnson,
read by Terry L. Papillon --|tThe mother /|rGwendolyn
Brooks, read by Rudy Dee --|tA Bronzeville mother loiters
in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns
bacon /|rGwendolyn Brooks, read by Rudy Dee and Nikki
Giovanni --|tA sunset of the city /|rGwendolyn Brooks,
read by Rudy Dee --|tYet do I marvel /|rCountee Cullen,
read by Kevin G. McDonald --|tIncident /|rCountee Cullen,
read by Gena E. Chandler --|tWe wear the mask /|rPaul
Laurence Dunbar, read by Novella Nelson --|tThe heart of a
woman /|rGeorgia Douglas Johnson, read by Ethel Morgan
Smith --|tBoston year /|rElizabeth Alexander, read by the
poet --|tPersonal letter no. 3 /|rSonia Sanchez, read by
the poet --|tPoem at thirty /|rSonia Sanchez, read by the
poet --|tA poem for Sterling Brown /|rSonia Sanchez, read
by the poet --|tLot's daughter dreams of her mother /
|rOpal Moore, read by Ethel Morgan Smith --|tMama's
promise /|rMarilyn Nelson, read by the poet --|tHomage to
my hips /|rLucille Clifton, read by Ennis McCrery --
|tTrain rides /|rNikki Giovanni, read by Virginia C.
Fowler --|tDrapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 /
|rNatasha Trethewey, read by Joanne V. Gabbin --|tNikki,
if you were a song /|rKwame Alexander, read by Novella
Nelson --|tA river that flows forever, and The rose that
grew from concrete /|rTupac Shakur, read by Novella Nelson
--|tMercy killing /|rRemica L. Bingham, read by Novella
Nelson --|tEgo tripping (there may be a reason why) /
|rNikki Giovanni, read by the poet.
520 Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary
African American poets, as selected by an award-winning
black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert
Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove.
650 0 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.
650 0 African Americans|vPoetry.
650 4 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.
650 4 African Americans|vPoetry.
650 7 African Americans.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00799558
650 7 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.|2fast
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650 7 American poetry|xAfrican American authors.|2sears
650 7 African Americans|vPoetry.|2sears
655 7 Poetry readings (Sound recordings)|2fast
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655 7 Poetry.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423828
655 7 Poetry.|2lcgft
655 7 |3Accompanying disc:|aPoetry readings (Sound recordings)
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700 1 Giovanni, Nikki,|eeditor.
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