Words of Protest, Words of Freedom

Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era
Herausgeber: Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman is Associate Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author of Spirits Distilled: Poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780822350927
• ISBN-10: 0822350920
• Artikelnr.: 34161854

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1
"Had she been worth the blood?"
> Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17
The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17
A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi
Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19
The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23
On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24
Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins
Jr. 26
Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27
Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28
Mississippi-1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31
Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32
Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33
"Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"
> The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37
Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39
School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40
My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41
"The FBI knows who lynched you"
> Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45
Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45
For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48
Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49
"Fearless before the waiting throng"
> Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53
American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53
For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54
Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55
Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56
"Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"
> Escort for a President / John Beecher 60
American History / Michael S. Harper 61
Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62
Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63
Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64
Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64
Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65
Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67
September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68
"What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"
> Belief / A. R. Ammons 75
Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80
On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81
At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81
Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82
Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85
A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86
Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88
Jacqueline / Will Inman 89
Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89
In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90
Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92
Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92
Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93
November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94
The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95
"Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"
> A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102
Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105
The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living /
George Oppen 106
The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112
Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113
Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113
When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115
For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117
"We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"
> Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125
Attica-U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126
finish / Charles Bukowski 127
Heroes / Karl Carter 129
Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130
A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper
132
Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132
Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138
On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145
The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146
Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148
If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149
Kuntu / Larry Neal 150
Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152
In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153
"Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"
> A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158
For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159
Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159
Judas / Karl Carter 160
malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161
Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163
Malcolm X-An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164
At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166
If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers
167
malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168
For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169
For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171
That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171
"In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"
> Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176
The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178
Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180
The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181
Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183
Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185
On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186
Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188
"Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"
> The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197
apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199
Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200
For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201
May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202
Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni
204
Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper
205
[let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207
One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208
Revolution