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Title Page
Contents
Foreword - By Sonia Sanchez
Introduction
Dedication
Invocation
We Have Been Believers
A Poet Is Not a Jukebox
Nummo
No Jive
Failure of An Invention
Building
The Disdirected
Part 1 - Blood I Say, Study Our Story, Sing This Song
Chapter 1 - The Way We Move
Chapter 2 - … And the Saga Continues
Chapter 3 - Bad Times
Chapter 4 - How to Do
Chapter 5 - Like a Dog
Chapter 6 - Lonely Women
Chapter 7 - On the Other Side
Chapter 8 - N
Chapter 9 - Her Scream Has Been Stolen
Chapter 10 - Crater Face
Chapter 11 - Susu
Chapter 12 - An Asian Am Anthem
Chapter 13 - Scout
Chapter 14 - This Old Man
Chapter 15 - Afternoon Train
Chapter 16 - Beginning at the End: Capital/Capitol Punishment
Part 2 - Open Your Mouth—and Smile
Chapter 17 - A Chinese Man in Smyrna
Chapter 18 - 450 Years of Selective Memory (Smile)
Chapter 19 - The N-Word
Chapter 20 - An Open Letter To The Entertainment Industry
Chapter 21 - Metropolitan Metaphysics
Chapter 22 - America Eats Its Young
Chapter 23 - Laughin At Cha
Chapter 24 - Rosa's Beauty
Chapter 25 - Overworked
Chapter 26 - Nintendo
Chapter 27 - Stealth-Pirates of Cyberia
Chapter 28 - The Death of Poetry
Chapter 29 - Last Visit to Chestnut Middle School
Chapter 30 - Learning to Drive at 32
Chapter 31 - Mr. Boom Boom Man
Chapter 32 - Road to the Presidency
Chapter 33 - For What It's Worth
Part 3 - Every Word Must Conjure
Chapter 34 - It's Called Kings
Chapter 35 - Billy
Chapter 36 - To Become Unconscious
Chapter 37 - Letter to an Unconceived Son
Chapter 38 - The Usual Suspects
Chapter 39 - Blooming Death … Blossoms
Chapter 40 - What the Oracle Said
Chapter 41 - The U.S.A. Court of No Appeal
Chapter 42 - On The State-Sanctioned Murder Of Shaka Sankofa
Chapter 43 - An Epistle to the Revolutionary Bible
Chapter 44 - Warrior Womb
Chapter 45 - Cowboynomics
Chapter 46 - Demockery
Chapter 47 - Executive Privilege
Chapter 48 - Question
Chapter 49 - Georgia Avenue, Washington D.C.
Chapter 50 - A Palace of Mourners
Chapter 51 - Palestine
Chapter 52 - The Road from Khartoum
Chapter 53 - A Modern Love Poem
Chapter 54 - In Praise of the Seattle Coalition
Chapter 55 - Blood Is the Argument
Part 4 - Drums Drown Out the Sorrow
Chapter 56 - Amadou Diallo: from Guinea to the Bronx: Dead on Arrival
Chapter 57 - Another Scream
Chapter 58 - A Well-Bred Woman
Chapter 59 - Amadou
Chapter 60 - BLS
Chapter 61 - After Diana Died
Chapter 62 - Dudley Randall
Chapter 63 - Hoodoo Whisper
Chapter 64 - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Chapter 65 - Glad All Over
Chapter 66 - Dancing after Sanchez
Chapter 67 - The 13th Letter
Chapter 68 - In Black Churches
Chapter 69 - For Gwendolyn Brooks
Chapter 70 - Tonal Embryology
Chapter 71 - Zizwe
Chapter 72 - Ali, Bomaye
Chapter 73 - Phyllis
Chapter 74 - Timbalero
Chapter 75 - Puente
Chapter 76 - Somalia
Chapter 77 - epitaph for Etheridge Knight
Chapter 78 - Farewell Queen Mother Moore
Chapter 79 - Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores
Part 5 - When the Definition of Madness Is Love
Chapter 80 - January Hangover
Chapter 81 - The Hardest Part About Love
Chapter 82 - Lies We Tell Ourselves
Chapter 83 - 8 Ways Of Looking At Pussy
Chapter 84 - Temporary Insanity
Chapter 85 - Alone In Belize
Chapter 86 - Footprints
Chapter 87 - Big World Look Out
Chapter 88 - Bullet Hole Man
Chapter 89 - Dreadlocks
Chapter 90 - Roots
Chapter 91 - Six Minutes Writing
Chapter 92 - Diner
Chapter 93 - Fullness
Chapter 94 - Wet Dream
Chapter 95 - Foursomes
Chapter 96 - Wishing You
Chapter 97 - Shunning an Imperative
Chapter 98 - January 8, 1996
Chapter 99 - A Poem for You
Chapter 100 - Throbs for the Instructress
Chapter 101 - At the Frenchman's
Chapter 102 - Mata Hari Blues or Why I Will Never Be a Spy
Chapter 103 - Yellah
Chapter 104 - Extremes Ain't My Thing As Salaam Alaikum
Chapter 105 - 13
Chapter 106 - Rock Candy
Chapter 107 - Love Jam
Chapter 108 - Cocaine Mad-Scream Article #33 LoveSong
Part 6 - We Whose Fathers Are Hidden
Chapter 109 - The Elders Are Gods
Chapter 110 - What the Dead Do
Chapter 111 - Creation Is A Cycle
Chapter 112 - Birth
Chapter 113 - Daughter-to-Father Talk
Chapter 114 - Tattooing the Motherline
Chapter 115 - Our Fathers
Chapter 116 - Mama's Magic
Chapter 117 - Father's Day
Chapter 118 - Momma in Red
Chapter 119 - Wildlife
Chapter 120 - Chicago on the Day Brother Increases: His Chances of Reaching Age 21
Chapter 121 - Lest We Forget
Chapter 122 - The African Burial Ground called Tribeca
Chapter 123 - Fatherless Townships
Chapter 124 - Waiting for the Results of a Pregnancy Test
Chapter 125 - Sitting in the Doctor's Office the Next Day
Chapter 126 - Circa
Part 7 - Seed of Resistance
Chapter 127 - Cooking
Chapter 128 - Ben Hur
Chapter 129 - In 5Th Grade
Chapter 130 - Complected
Chapter 131 - Broken Ends Broken Promises
Chapter 132 - My Name's Not Rodriguez
Chapter 133 - Water from the Well
Chapter 134 - The Tragic Mulatto Is Neither
Part 8 - Beauty Is Moving Us Forward
Chapter 135 - I'm Sayin Though
Chapter 136 - Beauty rituals 2000
Chapter 137 - Medusa
Chapter 138 - Starlette
Chapter 139 - Exceptions
Chapter 140 - What the Deal, Son?
Chapter 141 - Plain Ole Brother Blues
Chapter 142 - Why I Be a Goddess
Chapter 143 - I'm the Man
Chapter 144 - Dare to Be Different
Chapter 145 - Thoughts from a Bar Stool
Chapter 146 - A Blue Black Pearl
Chapter 147 - Runnin
Chapter 148 - Conversations In The Struggle
Chapter 149 - Harvest: A Line Drawing
Chapter 150 - Joseph Speaks To Gericault In The Studio
Chapter 151 - Entrancielo
Chapter 152 - New York Seizures
Chapter 153 - ¡Hey Yo / Yo Soy!
Chapter 154 - Flying over America
Part 9 - It Was the Music That Made Us
Chapter 155 - I'm a Hip Hop Cheerleader
Chapter 156 - Kill The DJ
Chapter 157 - Ms. Cousins' Rap
Chapter 158 - All Up In There
Chapter 159 - Doin'
Chapter 160 - The Trash Talker
Chapter 161 - Owed to Eminem
Chapter 162 - A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop
Chapter 163 - Rapid Transit
Chapter 164 - Hold It Steady
Chapter 165 - Conversation with Duke Ellington: and Louis (Pops) Armstrong
Chapter 166 - For Lady and Prez
Chapter 167 - Breath
Chapter 168 - The Flow
Chapter 169 - Bebop Trumpet
Chapter 170 - Conjugation Of The Verb To Blow
Chapter 171 - The Creed of a Graffiti Writer
Chapter 172 - Sonido Ink (quieto)
Chapter 173 - Because I am it's A Race Thing Trip
Chapter 174 - Grasshopper
Chapter 175 - Grace
Chapter 176 - The Low End
Chapter 177 - Rep/Resent
Chapter 178 - 2G (Another Millennium Poem)
Chapter 179 - enter(f*#@ckin)tained
Part 10 - Children of the Word
Chapter 180 - Motherseed
Chapter 181 - Wake Up, My Little Pretties
Chapter 182 - Nommo: How We Come To Speak
Chapter 183 - Spanglish
Chapter 184 - New Boogaloo
Chapter 185 - Mi Negrito
Chapter 186 - News of the World
Chapter 187 - Much of Your Poetry Is Beautiful
Chapter 188 - Ginsberg
Chapter 189 - In Bed with James Tate
Chapter 190 - Soulgroovin Ditty #7
Chapter 191 - Sundays
Chapter 192 - To Aretha Franklin from Sparkle
Chapter 193 - Lumumba Blues
Chapter 194 - All The Shoes Are Shined And The Cotton Is Picked
Chapter 195 - In this day and age
Chapter 196 - The Trouble I've Seen
Chapter 197 - Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage
Chapter 198 - Bensonhurst
Chapter 199 - For Michael Griffith, Murdered Dec. 21, 1986,: Howard Beach, NY
Chapter 200 - Lift Every Fist and Swing
Chapter 201 - TV Dinner
Chapter 202 - Bluesman
Chapter 203 - We're Not Well Here
Chapter 204 - Nickel Wine and Deep Kisses
Chapter 205 - The Coward
Chapter 206 - Strip
Chapter 207 - Sex
Chapter 208 - Enemies
Chapter 209 - American Poetry
Chapter 210 - So Many Books, So Little Time
Chapter 211 - How to Be a Street Poet
Chapter 212 - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Chapter 213 - X
Chapter 214 - The Tradition
Chapter 215 - There It Is
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