The Vintage Book of African American Poetry by Harper, Michael S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover About the Editors Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Contents Introduction Jupitor Hammon

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly, Ethiopian Poetess An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries

Benjamin Banneker

A Mathematical Problem in Verse

Phillis Wheatley

On Being Brought from Africa to America To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield A Farewell to America An Hymn to the Morning An Hymn to the Evening

George Moses Horton

On Liberty and Slavery On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet’s Freedom Early Affection George Moses Horton, Myself The Slave’s Complaint To Eliza

George Boyer Vashon

Vincent Ogé

James Monroe Whitfield

America Lines on the Death of John Quincy Adams

Frances E. W. Harper

The Slave Mother Let the Light Enter The Slave Auction Songs for the People President Lincoln’s Proclamation of Freedom A Double Standard Bible Defence of Slavery Bury Me in a Free Land Learning to Read

Joseph Seaman Cotter, Sr.

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League Frederick Douglass Ned’s Psalm of Life for the Negro The Don’t-Care Negro William Lloyd Garrison

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and Unknown Bards Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon) Sence You Went Away The Creation (A Negro Sermon) The Glory of Day was in Her Face

Paul Laurence Dunbar

When Malindy Sings A Negro Love Song We Wear the Mask Sympathy Dawn Robert Gould Shaw Jealous Frederick Douglass An Ante-Bellum Sermon Accountability A Plea Douglass Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes

William Stanley Braithwaite

The House of Falling Leaves The Watchers

Anne Spencer

Letter to My Sister White Things Lines to a Nasturtium Dunbar Neighbors

Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Heart of a Woman I Want to Die While You Love Me Little Son Old Black Men

Claude Mckay

If We Must Die The White House The Harlem Dancer The Tropics in New York

Jean Toomer

Cotton Song Evening Song Georgia Dusk Harvest Song November Cotton Flower Reapers

Melvin B. Tolson

Dark Symphony

Sterling A. Brown

After Winter Frankie and Johnny Idyll Long Track Blues Ma Rainey Odyssey of Big Boy Old Lem Rain Seeking Religion Slim Greer Slim in Atlanta Slim in Hell Southern Road Strong Men To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden

Gwendolyn Bennett

To a Dark Girl Sonnets

Langston Hughes

Cross Christ in Alabama Dream Variations Frosting Harlem Night Song Harlem Sweeties House in the World Madam and the Rent Man Mother to Son Passing Love Personal Suicide’s Note The Negro Speaks of Rivers Theme for English B Tower

Countee Cullen

A Brown Girl Dead Yet Do I Marvel From the Dark Tower Uncle Jim Death to the Poor Four Epitaphs Heritage Incident A Negro Mother’s Lullaby Saturday’s Child Scottsboro, Too, Is Worth Its Song

Robert Hayden

Ice Storm Those Winter Sundays A Plague of Starlings October Frederick Douglass Homage to the Empress of the Blues Paul Laurence Dunbar A Letter from Phillis Wheatley The Islands

Margaret Walker

For My People Molly Means October Journey

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bean Eaters Sadie and Maud A Song in the Front Yard Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery We Real Cool The Mother To Be in Love Beverly Hills, Chicago To an Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct The Blackstone Rangers Mentors

Bob Kaufman

Battle Report Grandfather Was Queer, Too Walking Parker Home Jail Poems

Raymond Patterson

Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Blackman

Derek Walcott

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II The Bounty

Etheridge Knight

Haiku The Idea of Ancestry For Freckle-Faced Gerald Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine

Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note From Hymn to Lanie Poo: Each Morning A Short Speech to My Friends Three Modes of History and Culture Black Art Black Bourgeoisie Clay

Audre Lorde

Separation But What Can You Teach My Daughter Revolution is One form of Social Change

Sonia Sanchez

Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament

Lucille Clifton

Miss rosie The Lost Baby Poem Light on My Mother’s Tongue To Ms. Ann Why Some People be Mad at Me Sometimes To My Friend, Jerina White Lady 4/30/92 for Rodney King Slaveship

Jay Wright

Journey to the Place of Ghosts Boleros 19 The Healing Improvisation of Hair The Albuquerque Graveyard Love in the Weather’s Bells Meta-A and the A of Absolutes The Lake in Central Park Desire’s Persistence

Michael S. Harper

Dear John, Dear Coltrane For Bud We Assume: On the Death of Our Son, Reuben Masai Harper Here Where Coltrane Is Last Affair: Bessie’s Blues Song Br’er Sterling and the Rocker Nightmare Begins Responsibility In Hayden’s Collage Angola (Louisiana) Psalm Release The Ghost of Soul-making My Father’s Face

Ishmael Reed

Dualism .05 Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Tenderloin I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra The Reactionary Poet

Al Young

Dance of the Infidels How the Rainbow Works The Blues Don’t Change How Stars Start From Bowling Green Leaving Syracuse

Toi Derricotte

Before Making Love On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses Invisible Dreams

Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

We Walk the Way of the New World the self-hatred of don l. lee

Sherley Anne Williams

Letters from a New England Negro

Marilyn Nelson

My Grandfather Walks in the Woods Emily Dickinson’s Defunct Tuskegee Airfield

Yusef Komunyakaa

Untitled Blues Elegy for Thelonious Between Days Facing It February in Sydney Euphony My Father’s Love Letters

Nathaniel Mackey

Winged Abyss Black Snake Visitation

Gayl Jones

Deep Song

C. S. Giscombe

Dayton, O., the 50’s & 60’s

Rita Dove

“Teach Us to Number Our Days” Banneker Parsley The Event Weathering Out The Great Palace of Versailles Canary

Thylias Moss

A Reconsideration of the Blackbird Landscape with Saxophonist Lessons from a Mirror The Undertaker’s Daughter Feels Neglect

Cornelius Eady

Crows in a Strong Wind Leadbelly Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues Radio Travelin’ Shoes

Carl Phillips

Cortege Aubade for Eve Under the Arbor

Anthony Walton

Dissidence Celestial Mechanics The Lovesong of Emmett Till The Summer Was Too Long

Elizabeth Alexander

The Venus Hottentot Narrative: Ali

Reginald Shepherd

Narcissus in Plato’s Cave Tantalus in May Slaves

Selected Bibliographies Permissions Acknowledgments

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