CONTENTS

Publisher’s Note

African Images, Glimpses from a Tiger’s Back

Love

Karamojans

Once

Chic Freedom’s Reflection

South: The Name of Home

Hymn

The Democratic Order: Such Things in Twenty Years I Understood

They Who Feel Death

On being asked to leave a place of honor for one of comfort

The Enemy

Compulsory Chapel

To the Man in the Yellow Terry

The Kiss

What Ovid Taught Me

Mornings

So We’ve Come at Last to Freud

Johann

The Smell of Lebanon

Warning

The Black Prince

Medicine

ballad of the brown girl

Suicide

Excuse

to die before one wakes must be glad

Exercises on Themes from Life

A Biography of Alice Walker