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The 100 best African American poems : (*but I cheated)
Record details
- ISBN: 1402221118
- ISBN: 9781402221118 :
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Physical Description:
228 pages ; 22 cm + 1 sound disc (70 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
sound disc
print - Publisher: Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Accompanying CD: "Featuring performances on CD by Ruby Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many more friends..." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Homage to my hips / Lucille Clifton -- Train ride / Kwame Dawes -- Train rides / Nikki Giovanni -- A great granddaddy speaks / Lamont B. Steptoe -- Eddie Priest's barbershop & notary / Kevin Young -- View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natash Trethewey -- Some kind of crazy / Major Jackson -- From / A. Van Jordan -- Freedom candy / E. Ethelbert Miller -- The Supremes / Cornelius Eady -- Nikki save me / Michele Scott -- "Nikki, if you were a song ..." / Kwame Alexander -- Haiku / DJ Renegade -- Untitled / Nadir Lasana Bomani -- "I wish I could've seen it ..." / Leodis McCray -- That and some mo' / DJ Renegade -- Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina -- Dancing naked on the floor / Kwame Alexander -- Harriet Tubman's email 2 master / Truth Thomas -- A river that flows forever ; The rose that grew from concrete / Tupac Shakur -- Rochelle / Reuben Jackson -- All their stanzas look alike / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- From the center 2 the edge ; The subtle art of breathing / Asha Bandele -- Sounthern University, 1962 / Kevin Young -- Poetry should ride the bus / Ruth Forman -- Blues for spring / Colleen J. McElroy -- The bicycle wizard / Sharan Strange -- Bicycles / Nikki Giovanni -- A clean slate / Fred D'Aguiar -- Song through the wall / Akua Lezli Hope -- A seat saved / Shana Yarborough -- Sunday greens / Rita Dove -- The untitled superhero poem / Tonya Maria Matthews -- Mercy killing -- Remica L. Bingham -- If you saw a Negro lady / June Jordan -- Ego tripping (there may be a reason why) / Nikki Giovanni. |
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| Subject: | African Americans Poetry American poetry African American authors |
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| Martin Library | Adults 811 ONE Arts Literature (Text) | 33454004501243 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
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