Every shut eye ain't asleep : an anthology of poetry by African Americans since 1945 / edited by Michael Harper and Anthony Walton.
1994
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Title
Every shut eye ain't asleep : an anthology of poetry by African Americans since 1945 / edited by Michael Harper and Anthony Walton.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0316347124
9780316347129
0316347108 (paperback)
9780316347105 (paperback)
9780316347129
0316347108 (paperback)
9780316347105 (paperback)
Published
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1994].
Copyright
©1994
Language
English
Description
xiv, 327 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28021724
Summary
Offers a collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. This anthology brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers a range of styles and techniques. With more than 200 poems included, there are "conventional" masterpieces - virtuoso "color-blind" poems in the tradition of Wordsworth, Keats, and Stevens - as well as a spectrum of passionate and personal pieces rooted in African-American culture and experience. This body of poetry is the flowering of an artistic tradition established earlier in this century by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. The newer work comprises many different visions, ranging from the chiseled and layered modernism of Jay Wright to the plain-spoken ferocity of Sonia Sanchez, from the dazzling witticisms of Ishmael Reed to the plangent lyricism of Rita Dove. --From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Robert Hayden (1913-1980): A ballad of remembrance
The ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Homage to the empress of the blues
Those winter Sundays
Runagate runagate
Frederick Douglass
The dream
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
October
A plague of starlings
The night-blooming Cereus
Free Fantasia: tiger flowers
A letter from Phillis Wheatley
Crispus Attucks
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ice storm
The point
The islands
Astronauts
[American journal]
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917): The mother
A song in the front yard
Sadie and Maud
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
Piano after war
Mentors
Beverly Hills, Chicago
The bean eaters
We real cool
A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon
The last quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
The lovers of the poor
From children coming home
Boy breaking glass
Medgar Evers
The Blackstone Rangers
The near-Johannesburg boy
From Winnie
To an old Black woman, homeless and indistinct
Gloria Oden (b. 1923): A private letter to Brazil
Testament of loss
Bible study
Mari Evans (b. 1923): When in Rome
Dolores Kendrick (b. 1927): Jenny in love
Sophie, climbing the stairs
Jenny in sleep
Sadie snuffs a candle
Raymond Patterson (b. 1929): Twenty-six ways of looking at a Blackman
Derek Walcott (b. 1930): A far cry from Africa
The fist
The schooner Flight
Eulogy to W.H. Auden
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991): Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane
The idea of ancestry
Haiku
For freckle-faced Gerald
A poem for Black relocation centers
Dark prophecy: I sing of shine
Gerald Barrax (b. 1933): Last letter
King: April 4, 1968
The singer
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934): Personal letter no. 3
Reflections after the June 12th March for Disarmament
Depression
elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)
Philadelphia: Spring, 1985
Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934): Preface to a twenty volume suicide note
From Hymn to Lanie Poo: each morning
Short speech to my friends
Three modes of history and culture
Black art
Black bourgeoisie
Clay
Audre Lorde (1934-1992): Coal
Prologue
Father Son and Holy Ghost
For the record
Beams
Jay Wright (b. 1935): Death As history
An invitation to Madison County
The Albuquerque Graveyard
Love in the Weather's Bells
Meta-A and the A of absolutes
The lake in Central Park
Madrid
Desire's persistence
The white deer
Compassion's bird
Don Jose Gorostiza encounters el Cordobes
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936): miss rosie
the lost baby poem
light ...
cutting greens
driving through new england ...
the bodies broken on ...
to ms. ann
in salem
why some people be mad at me sometimes
I. at nagasaki
them bones ...
the death of crazy horse
to my friend, jerina
white lady
powell march 1991
4/30/92 for rodney king
slaveship
Jayne Cortez (b. ca. 1936): Jazz fan looks back
Adupe
Clarence Major (b. 1936): Swallow the lake
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938): I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Dualism
Paul Laurence Dunbar in the tenderloin
05
The reactionary poet
Nov 22, 1988
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938): For Bud
Remember Mexico
American History
Here where Coltrane is
Last affair: Bessie's blues song
Homage to the New World
Nightmare begins responsibility
Grandfather
Tongue-tied in black and white
Eve (Rachel)
Double elegy
In Hayden's collage
The drowning of the facts of a life
The loon
Studs
Al Young (b. 1939): Dance of the infidels
Detroit 1958
How the rainbow works
Lester leaps in
The blues don't change
How stars start
Jazz as was
From Bowling Green
Leaving Syracuse
Haki Madhubuti (b. 1942): The self-hatred of Don L. Lee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Malcolm spoke/who listened?
Sun house
We walk the way of the New World
Sherley Anne Williams (b. 1944): Letters from a New England Negro
Ralph Dickey (1945-1972): Father
Mulatto lullaby
Leaving Eden
Calvin Forbes (b. 1945): My father's house
Blue Monday
Reading Walt Whitman
Marilyn Nelson Waniek (b. 1946): My grandfather walks in the woods
Emily Dickinson's defunct
Freeman Field
Three men in a tent
Lonely eagles
Star-fix
Porter
Tuskegee Airfield
Al (b. 1947): Cuba, 1962
Riot Act, April 29, 1992
Self defense
Endangered species
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947): Untitled blues
Elegy for Thelonious
How I see things
Fragging
Between days
Facing it
February in Sydney
Euphony
George Barlow (b. 1948): In my father's house
A dream of the ring: the great Jack Johnson
Christopher Gilbert (b. 1948): This bridge across
Resonance
And, yes, those spiritual matters
African Sculpture
A sorrow since Sitting Bull
Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1948): Winged abyss
Degree four
Melvin Dixon (1950-1992): Tour guide: La Maison des Esclaves
Grandmother: crossing Jordan
Heartbeats
Rita Dove (b. 1952): "Teach us to number our days"
Beauty and the beast
Banneker
Tou Wan speaks to her husband, Liu Sheng
Parsley
The Event
Dusting
Weathering out
The great palaces of Versailles
Flash cards
Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home
Canary
The musician talks about "process"
The passage
Thylias Moss (b. 1954): Lessons from a mirror
The undertaker's daughter feels neglect
A reconsideration of the blackbird
Landscape with saxophonist
Cornelius Eady (b. 1954): April
Radio
Jack Johnson does the Eagle Rock
Crows in a strong wind
Leadbelly
Insomnia
Song
Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues
Reuben Jackson (b. 1956): for duke ellington
thelonious
63rd and broadway
Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962): The Venus Hottentot
Narrative: Ali.
The ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield
Homage to the empress of the blues
Those winter Sundays
Runagate runagate
Frederick Douglass
The dream
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
October
A plague of starlings
The night-blooming Cereus
Free Fantasia: tiger flowers
A letter from Phillis Wheatley
Crispus Attucks
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ice storm
The point
The islands
Astronauts
[American journal]
Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917): The mother
A song in the front yard
Sadie and Maud
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
Piano after war
Mentors
Beverly Hills, Chicago
The bean eaters
We real cool
A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon
The last quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
The lovers of the poor
From children coming home
Boy breaking glass
Medgar Evers
The Blackstone Rangers
The near-Johannesburg boy
From Winnie
To an old Black woman, homeless and indistinct
Gloria Oden (b. 1923): A private letter to Brazil
Testament of loss
Bible study
Mari Evans (b. 1923): When in Rome
Dolores Kendrick (b. 1927): Jenny in love
Sophie, climbing the stairs
Jenny in sleep
Sadie snuffs a candle
Raymond Patterson (b. 1929): Twenty-six ways of looking at a Blackman
Derek Walcott (b. 1930): A far cry from Africa
The fist
The schooner Flight
Eulogy to W.H. Auden
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991): Hard Rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane
The idea of ancestry
Haiku
For freckle-faced Gerald
A poem for Black relocation centers
Dark prophecy: I sing of shine
Gerald Barrax (b. 1933): Last letter
King: April 4, 1968
The singer
Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934): Personal letter no. 3
Reflections after the June 12th March for Disarmament
Depression
elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia)
Philadelphia: Spring, 1985
Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934): Preface to a twenty volume suicide note
From Hymn to Lanie Poo: each morning
Short speech to my friends
Three modes of history and culture
Black art
Black bourgeoisie
Clay
Audre Lorde (1934-1992): Coal
Prologue
Father Son and Holy Ghost
For the record
Beams
Jay Wright (b. 1935): Death As history
An invitation to Madison County
The Albuquerque Graveyard
Love in the Weather's Bells
Meta-A and the A of absolutes
The lake in Central Park
Madrid
Desire's persistence
The white deer
Compassion's bird
Don Jose Gorostiza encounters el Cordobes
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936): miss rosie
the lost baby poem
light ...
cutting greens
driving through new england ...
the bodies broken on ...
to ms. ann
in salem
why some people be mad at me sometimes
I. at nagasaki
them bones ...
the death of crazy horse
to my friend, jerina
white lady
powell march 1991
4/30/92 for rodney king
slaveship
Jayne Cortez (b. ca. 1936): Jazz fan looks back
Adupe
Clarence Major (b. 1936): Swallow the lake
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938): I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Dualism
Paul Laurence Dunbar in the tenderloin
05
The reactionary poet
Nov 22, 1988
Michael S. Harper (b. 1938): For Bud
Remember Mexico
American History
Here where Coltrane is
Last affair: Bessie's blues song
Homage to the New World
Nightmare begins responsibility
Grandfather
Tongue-tied in black and white
Eve (Rachel)
Double elegy
In Hayden's collage
The drowning of the facts of a life
The loon
Studs
Al Young (b. 1939): Dance of the infidels
Detroit 1958
How the rainbow works
Lester leaps in
The blues don't change
How stars start
Jazz as was
From Bowling Green
Leaving Syracuse
Haki Madhubuti (b. 1942): The self-hatred of Don L. Lee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Malcolm spoke/who listened?
Sun house
We walk the way of the New World
Sherley Anne Williams (b. 1944): Letters from a New England Negro
Ralph Dickey (1945-1972): Father
Mulatto lullaby
Leaving Eden
Calvin Forbes (b. 1945): My father's house
Blue Monday
Reading Walt Whitman
Marilyn Nelson Waniek (b. 1946): My grandfather walks in the woods
Emily Dickinson's defunct
Freeman Field
Three men in a tent
Lonely eagles
Star-fix
Porter
Tuskegee Airfield
Al (b. 1947): Cuba, 1962
Riot Act, April 29, 1992
Self defense
Endangered species
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947): Untitled blues
Elegy for Thelonious
How I see things
Fragging
Between days
Facing it
February in Sydney
Euphony
George Barlow (b. 1948): In my father's house
A dream of the ring: the great Jack Johnson
Christopher Gilbert (b. 1948): This bridge across
Resonance
And, yes, those spiritual matters
African Sculpture
A sorrow since Sitting Bull
Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1948): Winged abyss
Degree four
Melvin Dixon (1950-1992): Tour guide: La Maison des Esclaves
Grandmother: crossing Jordan
Heartbeats
Rita Dove (b. 1952): "Teach us to number our days"
Beauty and the beast
Banneker
Tou Wan speaks to her husband, Liu Sheng
Parsley
The Event
Dusting
Weathering out
The great palaces of Versailles
Flash cards
Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home
Canary
The musician talks about "process"
The passage
Thylias Moss (b. 1954): Lessons from a mirror
The undertaker's daughter feels neglect
A reconsideration of the blackbird
Landscape with saxophonist
Cornelius Eady (b. 1954): April
Radio
Jack Johnson does the Eagle Rock
Crows in a strong wind
Leadbelly
Insomnia
Song
Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues
Reuben Jackson (b. 1956): for duke ellington
thelonious
63rd and broadway
Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962): The Venus Hottentot
Narrative: Ali.
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