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Index
Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction
Prose
Poetry Is Not a Luxury (1977)
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action (1977)
My Mother’s Mortar (1977)
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1978)
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (1979)
Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface (1979)
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (1981)
Fourth of July (1982)
I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities (1985)
A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer (1988)
Is Your Hair Still Political? (1990)
Difference and Survival: An Address at Hunter College (undated)
Poetry
from The First Cities (1968)
A Family Resemblance
Coal
Now that I Am Forever with Child
Spring III
To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered On
Father Son and Holy Ghost
Generation
If You Come Softly
Suffer the Children
A Lover’s Song
Suspension
from Cables to Rage (1970)
Rooming houses are old women
Bloodbirth
Martha
Sowing
Making it
On a night of the full moon
from From a Land Where Other People Live (1973)
Progress Report
Moving Out or The End of Cooperative Living
Change of Season
Generation II
Love, Maybe
Conclusion
Movement Song
Who Said It Was Simple
from New York Head Shop and Museum (1974)
New York 1970
The American Cancer Society Or There Is More Than One Way To Skin A Coon
A Sewerplant Grows In Harlem Or I’m A Stranger Here Myself When Does The Next Swan Leave
One Year To Life On The Grand Central Shuttle
The Workers Rose On May Day Or Postscript To Karl Marx
Cables to Rage or I’ve Been Talking on This Street Corner a Hell of a Long Time
Keyfood
To The Girl Who Lives In A Tree
Love Poem
Separation
Song For A Thin Sister
Revolution Is One Form Of Social Change
The Brown Menace Or Poem To The Survival of Roaches
Sacrifice
from Between Our Selves (1976)
Power
Solstice
Scar
Between Ourselves
from The Black Unicorn (1978)
A Woman Speaks
Coniagui Women
Chain
Sequelae
A Litany for Survival
Portrait
Therapy
Recreation
Artisan
Contact Lenses
But What Can You Teach My Daughter
From Inside an Empty Purse
A Small Slaughter
Sister Outsider
“Never Take Fire from a Woman”
Between Ourselves
from Chosen Poems: Old and New (1982)
The Evening News
Afterimages
A Poem For Women In Rage
from Our Dead Behind Us (1986)
To the Poet Who Happens to Be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman
Outlines
Equal Opportunity
Diaspora
A Question of Climate
Florida
Political Relations
There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women
from The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance (1993)
Making Love to Concrete
Thaw
Inheritance—His
jessehelms
The Politics of Addiction
Today Is Not the Day
Notes
Prose Index
Poetry Index
Copyright
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