9. Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele -- poem at thirty -- nigger -- black magic -- summary -- malcolm -- small comment -- the final solution -- to CHucK -- poem for dcs 8th graders--1966-67 -- definition for blk/children -- Memorial [1. The supremes--cuz they dead . . . ] -- Memorial [2. bobby hutton . . . ] -- personal letter no. 2 -- 2. from We a BaddDDD People: SURVIVAL POEMS. a poem for my father -- blk / rhetoric -- personal letter no. 3 -- television / poem -- right on: wite america 1 -- right on: wite america 2 -- right on: wite america 3 -- right on: wite america 4 -- in the courtroom -- summer words of a sistuh addict -- on watching a world series game -- LOVE/SONG/CHANTS. 10:15 am -- April 27, 1969 poem -- last poem i'm gonna write bout us -- for our lady -- TCB/EN POEMS. "To Fanon, culture meant only one thing . . ." -- why i don't get high on shit -- sunday / evening at gwen's -- a poem for nina simone to put some music to and blow our nigguh / minds -- a ballad for stirling street (to be sung) For Amina and Amira Baraka -- now poem. for us. -- 3. from Love Poems: Why -- Poem No. 1 -- July -- Father and Daughter -- Haiku from a husband -- Poem No. 3 -- Poem No. 4 -- Magic -- Words -- Haiku [we grow up my love . . . ] -- After the fifth day -- Haiku [Was it yesterday . . . ] -- Haiku [O i am so sad, i . . . ] -- Prelude to Nothing -- Blues -- Kaleidoscope -- Haiku [o i was wide and . . . ] -- Ballad (after the spanish) -- Poem No. 7 -- Sequences -- Old Words -- Haiku [if i had known, if . . . ] -- To You/Who Almost Turned/Me On -- Formula -- Haiku [there are things sadder . . . ] -- Poem No. 8 -- Poem No. 10 -- Welcome home. my prince -- Haiku [your love was a port . . . ] -- Haiku [i could love you Black . . . ] -- I Have Walked a Long Time -- Hey There -- A Blk/Woman/Speaks -- Poem No. 12 -- Haiku (written from Peking) -- Depression -- Listening to Jimmy Garrison -- Haiku [in your wet season . . . ] -- Haiku [O this day like an . . . ] -- Poem No. 15 -- 4. from A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women -- PAST. [COME into Black geography . . . ] -- 1. woman -- 2. earth mother -- 3. young/black/girl -- 4. young womanhood -- 5. womanhood -- PRESENT. 1 [THIS woman vomiting her . . . ] -- REBIRTH. -- [WHEN i stepped off the plane i knew i was home . . . ] -- 5. from It's a New Day poems for young brothas and sistahs -- For Morani/Mungu/Meusi -- Words for Kali and Poochie -- Words for Geoffrey and Stephanie Hamilton -- City Songs -- to P. J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) -- When we come -- We Can Be -- 6. from I've Been a Woman -- (Haikus / Tankas & Other Love Syllables) -- 7. from Under a Soprano Sky -- BEGINNINGS. Under a Soprano Sky (section 1) -- A poem for my brother -- elegy for MOVE and Philadelphia -- Poem -- Morning raga: 6/28/84 -- Philadelphia: Spring, 1985 -- At the Gallery of La Casa de Las Americas, Habana. Dec. 1984 -- haiku for morani and mungu -- 3 x 3 shigeko: a hiroshima maiden speaks: -- 3 x 3 Carl: a Black man Speaks -- 3 x 3 -- the poet: speaks after silence: insomnia -- "There is no news from Auschwitz"question for mrs. rinaldi -- words for mr. and mrs. rinaldi -- the inmate -- Last recording session/for papa Joe -- tanka for papa Joe Jones who used to toss me up to the skyhaiku (walking in the rain in Guyana) -- on listening to Malcolm's Ballot or The BulletSong -- No. 3 for 2nd & 3rd grade sisters -- Dear Mama, -- Fallshort poem: at midnight -- short poem 3 -- haiku for mungu and morani and the children of soweto -- haiku for john brown -- A poem for my most Intelligent 10:30 am Class/ Fall, 1985 -- Haiku for Paul Robeson -- Africa Poem No. 4 -- style no. 1 -- Graduation Notes -- 8. from Generations -- From a Black Feminist Conference -- Reflections on Margaret Walker: Poet -- Reflections After the June 12th March for Disarmament -- A Poem of Praise for Gerald Penny . . .Father and Daughter -- 9. from Homegirls and Handgrenades -- StoryPoem Written After Reading Wright's "American Hunger" -- A Song -- Haiku [i see you blackboy . . . ] -- Masks -- A Poem for Paul -- Bubba -- A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King -- MIAS -- On Seeing a Pacifist Burn -- Letter to Ezekiel Mphahlele -- 15. Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman. PART I. Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1 -- PART II. Catch the Fire -- A Love Song for Spelman -- Poem [What I have seen in the twentieth century . . . ] -- PART III. Love Song No. 3. Introduction of Toni Morrison . . . -- Poem for July 4, 1994 For President Václav Havel -- This Is Not a Small Voice -- PART IV. Poem for Some Women -- haiku 1 [i have died and dreamed . . . ] -- blues haiku 1 [all this talk bout love . . . ] -- tanka [i have taken five . . . ] -- haiku 2 [everywhere i turn . . . ] -- haiku 4 [your breath in exile . . . ] -- haiku 6 [if i had known then . . . ] -- sonku [have mercy on the . . . ] -- South African tanka [the necklace i bring . . . ] -- haiku 8 [i am hunched down in . . . ] -- blues haiku 2 [ain't no curves in his . . . ] -- haiku 9 [the sprawling sound . . . ] -- 11. from Does Your House Have Lions? -- sister's voice -- brother's voice -- 12. from Like the Singing Coming off the Drums -- Dancing -- Haiku [you ask me to run . . . ] -- Song -- Tanka [i don't know the rules . . . ] -- Haiku [i come from the same . . . ] -- Haiku [i have caught fire from . . . ] -- Haiku [love between us is . . . ] -- Haiku [i turn westward in . . . ] -- Sonku [i collect . . . ] -- Sonku [i who have . . . ] -- Blues haiku [you too slippery . . . ] -- Haiku [come windless invader . . . ] -- Haiku [i am moving in . . . ] -- Haiku on passing Toni Cade Bambara's house -- Blues haiku [what i need is traveling . . . ] -- Haiku [old man standing long . . . ] -- Haiku [it is i who have . . . ] -- Tanka [this man has sucked too . . . ] -- Haiku [i am watersnake . . . ] -- Haiku [i am the ugly . . . ] -- Haiku [have you ever crossed . . . ] -- Haiku [mixed with day and sun . . . ] -- Blues [even though you came in december be my january man . . . ] -- Haiku [how fast is the wind . . . ] -- Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil . . . ] -- Blues Haiku [am i yo philly . . . ] -- Haiku [my womb is a dance . . . ] -- Haiku [sweet woman dancing . . . ] -- Poem [i am dreaming . . . ] -- Sonku [love comes with . . . ] -- Haiku [c'mon man hold me . . . ] -- Tanka [c'mon man ride me . . . ] -- Sonku [i feel your . . . ] -- Sonku [i hear the . . . ] -- Haiku [i am who i am . . . ] -- Haiku question from a young sisterPoem [Good morning, sex . . . ] -- Blues haiku [yall talkin all under . . . ] -- Blues haiku [i wuz in Kansas . . . ] -- Haiku [i am looking for . . . ] -- Haiku [these waves boisterous like . . . ] -- Haiku for Louis Massiah -- Sonku [what is love . . . ] -- Blues haiku [my face is a scarred . . . ] -- Haiku [derelict with eyes . . . ] -- Haiku [they smell like rust . . . ] -- Haiku [a tint on the tongue . . . ] -- Haiku [my teeth can write your . . . ] -- Haiku [i have carved your face . . . ] -- Sonku [my eyes look . . . ] -- Haiku [i am a small piece . . . ] -- Haiku [to be lifted in . . . ] -- Tanka [woman without heat . . . ] -- Haiku [it was nothing big . . . ] -- Sonku [what i want . . . ] -- Haiku [i hear your breath . . . ] -- Haiku for Joe Barry -- Haiku [red orange breasts sweet . . . ] -- Haiku [and i am flesh burnt . . . ] -- Haiku [this poem is for me . . . ] -- Short Poem [quite often without . . . ] -- Haiku 2 [my bones migrate in . . . ] -- Haiku [do you want ashes . . . ] -- Haiku [if i were an old . . . ] -- Haiku [you are rock garden . . . ] -- Tanka [to surround yourself with . . . ] -- Sonku [to worship . . . ] -- Haiku [my bones hang to . . . ] -- Haiku [in this wet season . . . ] -- A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald -- Love Poem for Tupac -- For Tupac Amaru Shakur -- from Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara -- For Sister Gwen Brooks -- 13. from Shake Loose My Skin -- Morning Song and Evening Walk -- For Sweet Honey in the Rock -- Aaaayeee Babo (Praise God) -- Fragment 1 -- Fragment 2 -- Haiku [man. you write me so . . . ] -- Towhomitmayconcern -- Song No. 2 -- An Anthem for the ANC and Brandywine Peace Community -- 14. from Morning Haikuhaikuography -- 10 haiku for Max Roach -- dance haiku -- 14 haiku for Emmett Louis Till -- from 21 haiku for Odetta -- 4 haiku for Max Roach -- sister haiku for Pat -- 15 haiku for Toni Morrison -- 6 haiku for Elizabeth Catlett in Cuernavaca -- 2 haiku for Ras Baraka -- 5 haiku for Sarah Vaughan -- 9 haiku for Freedom's Sisters -- 5 love haiku -- 6 haiku for Maya Angelou -- memory haiku -- haiku poem: 1 year after 9/11 -- 15. Envoi: For Harriet Tubman -- Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman.
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"A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning four decades of her literary career"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.