Record details

• ISBN: 9780812997873
• ISBN: 0812997875
• ISBN: 0812997883
• ISBN: 9780812997880
• Physical Description: xvii, 308 pages ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]
• Copyright: ©2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie -- pt. I. Where love is a scream of anguish -- They went home -- Gamut -- A Zorro man -- To a man -- Late October -- No loser, no weeper -- When you come to me -- Remembering -- In a time -- Tears -- Detached -- To a husband -- Accident -- Let's majeste -- After -- Mothering blackness -- On diverse deviations -- Mourning grace -- How can I lie to you -- Sounds like pearls -- pt. II. Just before the world ends -- When I think about myself -- On a bright day, next week -- Letter to an aspiring junkie -- Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and other latter-day saints -- Times-Square-shoeshine-composition -- Faces -- To a freedom fighter -- Riot : 60's -- We saw beyond our seeming -- Black ode -- No no no no --- My guilt -- Calling of names -- On working White liberals -- Sepia fashion show -- Thirteens (Black) -- Thirteens (White) -- Harlem hopscotch.

Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well -- pt. I. Pickin em up and layin em down -- Here's to adhering -- On reaching forty -- Telephone -- pt. II. Passing time -- Now long ago -- Greyday -- Poor girl -- Come, and be my baby -- Senses of insecurity -- Alone -- Communication I -- Communication II -- Wonder -- A conceit -- pt. III. Request -- Africa -- America -- For us, who dare not dare -- Lord, in my heart -- Artful pose -- pt. IV. The couple -- Pusher -- Chicken-Licken -- pt. V.I almost remember -- Prisoner -- Woman me -- John J. -- Southeast Arkanasia -- Song for the old ones -- Child dead in old seas -- Take time out -- Elegy -- Reverses -- Little girl speakings -- This winter day.

And still I rise -- pt. I. Touch me, life, not softly -- A kind of love, some say -- Country lover -- Remembrance -- Where we belong, a duet -- Phenomenal woman -- Men -- Refusal -- Just for a time -- pt. II. Traveling -- Junkie monkey reel -- Lesson -- California prodigal -- My Arkansas -- Through the inner city to the suburbs -- Lady luncheon club -- Momma welfare roll -- Singer will not sing -- Willie -- To beat the child was bad enough -- Woman work -- One more round -- Traveler -- Kin -- Memory -- pt. III. And still I rise -- Still I rise -- Ain't that bad? -- Life doesn't frighten me -- Bump d'bump -- On aging -- In retrospect -- Just like Job -- Call letters : Mrs. V.B. -- Thank you, Lord.

Shaker, why don't you sing? -- Awaking in New York -- A good woman feeling bad -- Health-food diner -- A Georgia song -- Unmeasured tempo -- Amoebaean for Daddy -- Recovery -- Impeccable conception -- Caged bird -- Avec merci, Mother -- Arrival -- A plagued journey -- Starvation -- Contemporary announcement -- Prelude to a parting -- Martial choreograph -- To a suitor -- Insomniac -- Weekend glory -- Lie -- Prescience -- Family affairs -- Changes -- Brief innocence -- Last decision -- Slave coffee -- Shaker, why don't you sing? -- My life has turned to blue.

I shall not be moved -- Worker's song -- Human family -- Man bigot -- Old folks laugh -- Is love -- Forgive -- Insignificant -- Love letter -- Equality -- Coleridge Jackson -- Why are they happy people? -- Son to mother -- Known to Eve and me -- These yet to be United States -- Me and my work -- Changing -- Born that way -- Televised -- Nothing much -- Glory falls -- London -- Savior -- Many and more -- New house -- Our grandmothers -- Preacher, don't send me -- Fightin' was natural -- Loss of love -- Seven women's blessed assurance -- In my Missouri -- They ask why -- When great trees fall.

On the pulse of morning -- Celebrations -- A brave and startling truth -- Continue -- Sons and daughters -- A Black woman speaks to Black manhood -- Amazing peace -- Mother : a cradle to hold me -- In and out of time -- Ben Lear's bar mitzvah -- Vigil -- Prayer -- Amazement awaits -- His day is done.

Language Note:

Text in English.

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African Americans > Poetry.

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Poetry.