[Sinister Wisdom 102] • The Complete Works of Pat Parker by Parker, Pat -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

CoverImage Title Credits Contents Coming On Strong: A Legacy of Pat Parker MOVEMENT IN BLACK

Foreword

MARRIED

Goat Child For Donna [Sometimes my husband] Fuller Brush Day [To see a man cry] You can’t be sure of anything these days Exodus A Moment Left Behind From Deep Within

LIBERATION FRONTS

[My hands are big] [from cavities of bones] [Brother] [Have you ever tried to hid?] [In English Lit.,] [My heart is fresh cement,] Dialogue [With the sun] For Michael on His Third Birthday A Family Tree Sunday Pied Piper [i wonder] Where do you go to become a non-citizen? [I am a child of America] To My Vegetarian Friend For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend [Tour America!] [I’m so tired] The What Liberation Front? Snatches of a Day [Boots are being polished] Questions [i have a dream]

MOVEMENT IN BLACK

Movement in Black

BEING GAY

[Move in darkness] [My lover is a woman] Cop-out For Willyce Best Friends Pit Stop [When i drink] For the Straight Folks (Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So BLATANT My Lady Ain’t No Lady Non-monogamy Is A Pain in the Butt

LOVE POEMS

[love] [Let me come to you naked] [I have a solitary lover] I Kumquat You A Small Contradiction [i wish that i could hate you] [Bitch!] [Sitting here,] [If it were possible] I Have On Jealousy [As you entered] Metamorphosis Para Maria Sandra gente Group The Law Womanslaughter Cover Womanslaughter Autumn Morning [when i was a child] [there is a woman in this town]

NEW WORK

Great God Between the Light Sublimation Massage Reputation Progeny It’s Not So Bad For Audre Funny

Jonestown and Other Madness

foreword love isn’t bar conversation my brother georgia, georgia georgia on my mind one thanksgiving day Paper Article aftermath breaking up maybe i should have been a teacher child’s play jonestown legacy

Prose

The Demonstrator Autobiography Chapter One Shoes Mama and the Hogs Revolution: It’s Not Neat or Pretty or Quick Poetry at Women’s Music Festivals: Oil and Water Gay Parenting, Or, Look out, Anita The 1987 March on Washington: The Morning Rally

Two Plays

Cover Page "Hard Time" Hard Time Pat Parker and Dog Image Pinocle

Restored Poems-From A Child of Myself

Assassination Ice Cream Blues From Pit Stop To an Unlabelled

Uncollected Poems: 1960s

The Mirror Of Life [I have seen death] To a Friend City Song Not a Good Night To a Poet, dead Please you all Two Faces of Black Gold Stars and Hollow Bags [A sea hawk soars above my head.] CONFRONTATION Berkeley ‘66 A Voice from Watts Poem to my Mother Costume Party Soldier’s boots are With Love to Lyndon white folks Summer From the Wars To a Deaf Poet [Two people walk] [Why burn a candle in daylight?] Going to the bridge now [all] [the streets] [There are so many bags to fall in]

Uncollected Poems: 1970s

Speech by a Black Nationalist to a white Audience. Growing Up Fleshy Soft Sea [i will not always be with you] [not by chance] Transit Lady A Woman’s Love “Good morning, Mrs. Parker. Are you interested in working?” [i have seen] To Lynda [from my bedroom window] Sunday Morning To Tamara (Tami) Kallen Gente Cop took my hand Anatomy of a Pig [Limericks] Agua Riseuño Poem #4 for Ann Poem for Ann #5 [i must learn] [Lady,] well, i got the menstrual blues my baby’s a bass player [I fell in love some time ago] A Walk [She comes to me—tentative] Sister [Every once in a while] Does This Make Sense [At first, I] Just Exactly What Is It That You Want

Uncollected Poems: 1980s

[I have a lover] [Once it was said—] I’m Still Waiting To Be Pinched For Wayne I hear a train a coming Reflections on a March Sweet Sweet Jimmy Sweet Sweet Prince Jimmy The Long Lost Ones To My Straight Sister Words Oprah Winfrey [I remember—] Timothy Lee [little Billy Tipton] [We’re the Dunham-Parker’s from Pleasant Hill] [It’s not so bad] [There are those] Trying to do how mama did can un Do you

Pat Parker Photograph Note from the Editor Pat Parker and Cheryl Clarke Photograph End Notes Pat Parker Photographs Acknowledgments Bibliography Appendix: Tables of Contents Editorials Back Cover

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