Edition |
[First edition]. |
Description |
188 pages ; 22 cm |
Note |
Poems. |
Form |
Also issued online. |
Contents |
From For Malcolm: My ace of spades / Ted Jones -- Malcolm X- an autobiography ; Morning raga for Malcolm / Larry Neal -- El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz / Robert Hayden -- One year ago / David Llorens -- For Malcolm / Joyce Whitsitt Lawrence -- If blood is black, then spirit neglects my unborn son / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Malcolm / Sonia Sanchez -- Judgement Day / Kent Foreman -- Brother Malcolm's echo / K. William Kgositsile -- A poem for black hearts / LeRoi Jones -- At that moment / Raymond Patterson -- For brother Malcolm / Edward S. Spriggs. From The poets: The life of Lincoln West ; Young Africans ; Paul Robeson / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The small bells of Benin ; Etta Moten's attic ; The convert / Margaret Danner -- Hell, Mary / Jon Eckels -- The negro ; Freedom rider : washout ; The treehouse ; Fisherman ; Sixteen, yeah ; Whitey, baby / James Emanuel -- Poem (For BMC No. 1) ; The true import of pre |
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Wilmington Delaware ; I'm not lonely ; Black power ; Seduction ; The funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Knoxville, Tennessee ; Revolutionary music ; Beautiful Black men ; For Saundra ; My poem ; Black judgements ; Poem for Aretha ; No reservations ; Alone ; The game of game ; Kidnap poem ; For a lady of pleasure now retired ; 2nd rapp ; A robin's poem ; Toy poem / Nikki Giovanni -- Prologue ; Georgia- it's the gospel truth / Everett Hoagland -- When she spoke of God ; Vietnam : I need more than this crust of salt / Lance Jeffers -- When brown is black ; Mandela's sermon ; Elegy for David Diop ; Ivory masks in orbit ; To Fanon / K.W. Kgositsite -- Hard rock returns to prison ; The idea of ancestry ; As you leave me ; The violent space ; 2 poems for Black relocation centers ; It was a funky deal ; The sun came / Etheridge Knight -- "Stereo" ; Awareness ; The cure all ; The new integrationist ; Tw |
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In the interest of Black salvation ; The wall ; The death dance ; But he was cool ; Don't cry, scream ; Assassination ; Malcolm spoke, who listened? ; A poem to complement other poems ; Blackmusic, a beginning ; Blackwoman ; The revolutionary screw ; Reflections on a lost love ; A poem looking for a reader ; A message all Blackpeople can dig ; Mixed sketches ; On seeing Diana go maddddddddd ; A poem for a poet ; Change is not always progress ; For Black people ; Move un-noticed to be noticed / Don L. Lee -- Roses and revolutions ; Primitives ; The rite ; Hail, Dionysos ; Ballad of Birmingham ; The southern road ; George ; Booker T. and W.E.B. ; The profile on the pillow / Dudley Randall -- Execution ; Who shall die ; Seascape ; My childhood / James Randall -- Assailant ; Reptile ; The roach ; An inconvenience / John Raven -- To all brothers ; Poem at thirty ; Black magic ; Summary ; A p |
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We a baddddd people ; Life poem ; So this is our revolution ; Let us begin the real work ; A ballad for Stirling Street / Sonia Sanchez -- Because I have wandered long ; You are instantly enfolded ; Who is not a stranger still ; My love when this is past ; Who collects the pain / Stephany -- Prophets for a new day ; Jackson, Mississippi ; For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker ; Proverbs ; Till the sun goes down / Marvin X. From Black poetry: View from the corner / Samuel Allen -- To our first born / Ebon -- For Black poets who think of suicide / Etheridge Knight -- One time Henry dreamed the number / Doughtry Long -- For the truth / Edward S. Spriggs. From Broadside series: Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A child's nightmare / Bobb Hamilton -- Sunny / Naomi Long Madgett -- Letter from a wife / S. Carolyn Reese -- Race results, U.S.A., 1966 / Sarah Webster Fabio |
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Ghetto waif / B. Felton -- Black and White / Umar Abd Rahim Hasson -- The squared circle / Carl Killebrew -- Our days are numbered / Alicia L. Johnson -- T.C / Walter Bradford -- Granny Black poet (in pastel) / Arthur Pfister -- Now ain't that love / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Rip-off / Ronda M. Davis. |
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 |
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, compilor.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Broadside treasury. [1st ed.] Detroit, Mich., Broadside Press [1971] (OCoLC)568646944 |
ISBN |
0910296510 (pbk) 0910296537 |
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9780910296519 (pbk) 0910296537 |
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0910296537 |
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9780910296533 |
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