| Edition |
First Quill edition. |
| Description |
418 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
St. Stephen : a passion play / Janus Adams -- Tanka / Fatimah Afif -- For "Mamie" / Fayola Kamaria Ama -- There is no title : only echoes ; The promise ; Story for the remainder / Johari M. Amini -- The reunion / Maya Angelou -- Madame Bai and the taking of Stone Mountain / Toni Cade Bambara -- Soweto song ; Haiti ; I wanna make freedom ; Sortin-out / Amina Baraka -- Pretending ; Martha ; The dancer / Brenda Connor-Bey -- Primer for blacks ; To those of my sisters who kept their naturals ; Requiem before revival / Gwendolyn Brooks -- For her ; My dream about being white ; Morning mirror / Lucille Clifton -- Rape ; There it is ; You know ; Big fine woman from Ruleville ; For the brave young students in Soweto / Jayne Cortez -- --And then she said ; French doors : a vignette ; The woman who lives in the botanical gardens / Alexis De Veaux -- The welcome / Y.W. Easton -- I am a black woman ; Where have you gone ; Speak the truth to the people ; Early in the mornin / Mari Evans -- Prince Harlem / Lois Elaine Griffith -- Fragments : mousetrap ; Definition ; The takers / Nikki Grimes -- Skillet blond / Vértàmàè Smart-Gròsvènòr -- Portrait of a woman artist ; Harlem/Soweto ; Letter to my father--a solidarity long overdue / Safiya Henderson -- Lament ; August ; I. / Akua Lezli Hope -- Reports ; A using ; Solution #9 / Mariah Britton Howard -- Paraphernalia for a suicide : a revelation of life / Lateifa-Ramona Lahleet Hyman -- Loomit ; Friday the 13th candlelight march / Adrienne Ingrum -- Murderous intent with a deadly weapon ; Dialogue ; Struggle of class / Rashidah Ismaili -- For the count ; A poem for all the mens in the world ; On learning ; My last feeling this way poem / Mae Jackson -- Ensinanc̦a / Gayl Jones -- Sweet Otis suite / Anasa Jordan -- On the real world : meditation #1 ; Blue ribbons for the baby girl ; A last dialog on the left ; Poem towards a final solution / June Jordan -- I am the weaver ; On being high ; In the middle ; A name change / Abbey Lincoln (Aminata Moseka) -- Need : a chorale of black women's voices / Audre Lorde -- Enough ; It's all in the name ; Running to gone ; For us ; Tokens for "t" / Esther Louise -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- Lament ; Tree women quest for sun / Malkia M'buzi -- A love poem to an African freedom fighter ; Untitled ; New chapters for our history / Rosemari Mealy -- A man called Jethro / Louise Meriwether -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Sugarman ; When I rite ; Inflation / Margaret Porter -- Transcendental blues ; The lady and the tramp / Aishah Rahman -- from Being my own woman / Faith Ringgold -- Mannessahs ; Touch : translation poem 4 ; Touch : poem 5 ; Aunt Dolly ; Folk ; Wimmin / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Waiting for her man too long / Sandra Rogers -- A poem for Sterling Brown ; Just don't never give up on love ; Old words ; Present ; Kwa mama zetu waliotuzaa / Sonia Sanchez -- Minority ; Equal opportunity ; Linseed oil and dreams / Judy Dothard Simmons -- The fabulous world of Toni Morrison : tar baby / Eleanor W. Traylor -- I said to poetry ; Family of ; Each one, pull one ; I'm really very fond ; Representing the universe / Alice Walker -- My truth and my flame ; This is my century--black synthesis of time ; Five black men-- ; I hear a rumbling-- ; Fanfare, coda, and finale / Margaret Walker -- The envelope / Michele Wallace -- Asylum ; For our life is a matter of faith ; I am not my sister's keeper : I am my sister / Regina Williams -- from "The iconography of childhood" ; You were never Miss Brown to me ; A record for my friends ; This city-light ; The wishon line / Sherley Anne Williams -- Refugee mother ; Our children are our children / Geraldine L. Wilson -- Birds of paradise ; Long road rhythm ; What we know / Nzadi Zimele-Keita (Michelle McMichael). |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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African American women -- Literary collections.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1900-.
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Geschichte 1982.
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| Added Author |
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
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Baraka, Amina.
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| Added Title |
Confirmation, an anthology of African American women.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Confirmation, an anthology of AfricanAmerican women. 1st Quill ed. New York : Quill, 1983 (OCoLC)560321146 |
| ISBN |
0688015824 paperback |
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9780688015824 paperback |
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