The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry:
A literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South, protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea of Africa.
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adam_text | Contents
Introduction
xix
i.
a Poet Black
Today s News
Elizabeth Alexander
1
when
Lucille Clifton
2
Flame
Jayne Cortez
3
Nexus
Rita Dove
4
To the Pale Poets
Ray Durem
5
Why Do So Few Blacks Study
Cornelius Eady
6
Creative Writing?
Puttin On The Dog (for Corner Girl )
Everett Hoagland
7
Michaelangelo the Elder
Bob Kaufman
9
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
Etheridge Knight
10
Bloodbirth
Audre
11
Incantation (forjonetta)
E. Ethelbert
12
Blah-Blah
Harryette Mullen
13
Detroit Addendum
Murray Jackson
14
One sees pictures of Dante:
Carl Phillips
15
Poem (for the Blues Singers)
Sterling Plumpp
16
Not About Poems
Carolyn Rodgers
17
Three Legged Chairs
Lamont B. Steptoe
18
2,.
O
Robert Hayden
19
Afro-American Fragment
Langston Hughes
21
O
Lance
22
African Dream
Bob Kaufman
23
125th Street and Abomey
Audre
24
Song of the Andoumboulou:
Nathaniel Mackey
25
vc
Contenti
Outcast
Claude McKay
26
Gift from Kenya
May Miller
27
Exploring the Dark Content
Harryette Mullen
28
My Father s Geography
Afaa M. Weaver
29
3.
Loom of History
Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett, and Other
Maya Angelou
31
Latter-Day Saints
Three Modes of History and Culture
Amiri
33
Southern Road
Sterling A. Brown
35
Tour Guide:
Melvin Dixon
37
The House Slave
Rita Dove
39
Son of Msippi
Henry Dumas
40
(The Recent Past)
C.S. Giscombe
42
Middle Passage
Robert Hayden
43
Runagate Runagate
Robert Hayden
49
Go Left Out of Shantiville
Nathaniel Mackey
52
A Hambone Gospel
Lamont B. Steptoe
54
Song of the Son
Jean Toomer
56
4.
In My Father s House
Samuel Allen
57
Return of the Native
Amiri
59
Gordian Knot
Constance Quarterman Bridges
60
We Have Never Loved
Sam Cornish
61
Blackie Thinks of His Brothers
Stanley Crouch
62
Blackbottom
Toi
63
Sorrow is the Only Faithful One
Owen Dodson
64
Nigger Song: An Odyssey
Rita Dove
65
Afro-American
Henry Dumas
66
The Wrong Street
Cornelius Eady
68
Now
Christopher Gilbert
69
Alabama Poem
Nikki Giovanni
71
Tenebris
Angelina Weld
72
Contents
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Längsten
73
My People
Längsten
74
My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land
Lance
75
The Bones of My Father
Etheridge Knight
77
How I See Things
Yusef Komunyakaa
79
The Question of Identity
Kristin Lattany
81
The Black Unicorn
Audre
82
Song of the Andoumboulou:
Nathaniel Mackey
83
Swallow the Lake
Clarence Major
85
The
Colleen J. McElroy
87
Black Power
Raymond Patterson
89
Blue
Carl Phillips
90
Ballad of Black/ Essence (forJoseph Harrison) Eugene B. Redmond
91
Flounder
Natasha Trethewey
92
For My People
Margaret Walker
93
5.
Must Die
Poem for Halfwhite College Students
Amiri
95
Beverly Hills, Chicago
Gwendolyn Brooks
96
the ISM
Wanda Coleman
98
Death of Dr. King
Sam Cornish
99
Is It Because I Am Black?
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
100
Homestead, USA
D. L. Crockett-Smith
101
A Litany at Atlanta
W
102
America
Henry Dumas
106
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
107
The World I See
Mari
108
Night, Death, Mississippi
Robert Hayden
109
The Mob
Calvin Hernton
111
Dream Boogie
Längsten
113
Tired
Fenton Johnson
114
If We Must Die
Claude McKay
115
Watts
Conrad Kent Rivers
116
XI
Contents
Walk Like Freedom
Carolyn Rodgers
117
A Poem for Players
Al
118
6.
Shall Be Remembered
Robeson at Rutgers
Elizabeth Alexander
121
American Gothic/To Satch
Samuel Allen
122
For Malcolm: After Mecca
Gerald Barrax
123
Music for Martyrs
Gwendolyn Brooks
124
Malcolm X
Gwendolyn Brooks
125
harriet
Lucille Clifton
126
Harriet Tubman
Sam Cornish
127
In Mr. Turner s Fields
Sam Cornish
129
Banneker
Rita Dove
130
David Walker
Rita Dove
132
Saba
Henry Dumas
133
Frederick Douglass
Robert Hayden
134
Fired Up!! (forJudy Rollins)
Everett Hoagland
135
The Old Mongoose—for Mac
Murray Jackson
137
For Beautiful Mary Brown:
June Jordan
138
Chicago Rent Strike Leader
For Etheridge Knight
Lamont B. Steptoe
139
For Malcolm X
Margaret Walker
140
For Mary McLeod Bethune
Margaret Walker
141
A Dance for Ma Rainey
Al
142
7.
So Long
Jayne Cortez
145
If I Were Earth
Henry Dumas
146
Seduction
Cornelius Eady
147
The Anti-Semanticist
Everett Hoagland
148
Desire
Langston Hughes
150
Echo
Audre
151
Woman with Flower
Naomi Long Madgett
152
She Is Flat On Her Back (for K.F.)
E.Ethelbert Miller
153
Contents
Omnivore
Harryette Mullen
154
The Joy-
Harryette Mullen
155
Pretty Piece of Tail
Harryette Mullen
156
(For Poki)
A. X. Nicholas
157
Lévitation
Carl Phillips
158
Highflown: Love
Eugene B. Redmond
160
—
Sonia
161
of am I not yo
even if u went on shit again
The Source of the Singing
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
162
8.
She Our Sister?
Whispers in a Country Church
Alvin Aubert
163
The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
164
Jessie Mitchell s Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
165
Virginia Portrait
Sterling A, Brown
166
the lost baby poem
Lucille Clifton
168
song at midnight
Lucille Clifton
170
Grinding Vibrato
Jayne Cortez
171
On the Turning Up of Unidentified
Toi Derricotte
173
Black Female Corpses
Canary (for
Rita Dove
175
...
Mari
176
(The Gospel Singers)
Black Queen Blues (Finale)
Mari
177
She (for Carolyn Grace)
Christopher Gilbert
178
Soft Targets (for Black Girls)
Essex Hemphill
179
Stations
Audre
180
The Old Women
Naomi Long Madgett
182
1915
Clarence Major
183
Illusion
Colleen J. McElroy
184
The Circus of the City
Colleen J. McElroy
186
Lessons from a Mirror
Thylias Moss
188
Anatomy
Harryette Mullen
189
xiii
Contenti
Eyes in the Back of Her Head
Harryette Mullen
191
Tune for a Teenage Niece
Eugene B. Redmond
193
(for
Feminism
Carolyn Rodgers
194
There Is a House
Lamont B. Steptoe
195
Old Black Ladies Standing on
Quincy Troupe
196
Bus Stop Corners
Mama I Remember
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
199
9.
Blood to Blood
Alvin Aubert
201
Young Soul
Amiri
202
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
203
Strong Men
Sterling A. Brown
204
those boys that ran together
Lucille Clifton
207
Portraiture
Anita Scott Coleman
208
Knees of a Natural Man (forJay Wright)
Henry Dumas
209
Gifts
Murray Jackson
210
San Diego Goodbye
Murray Jackson
211
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
Helene
212
Losses
Yusef Komunyakaa
213
When Loneliness Is a Man
Yusef Komunyakaa
214
At
Colleen J. McElroy
215
a Year (for
Father (Part
Harryette Mullen
217
Father s Day
E. Ethelbert Miller
218
Epigrams for My Father
Eugene B. Redmond
219
(John Henry Redmond, Sr.)
To the Father of Me
Lamont B. Steptoe
221
Amateur Fighter (for my father)
Natasha Trethewey
111
Reflections on Growing Older
Quincy Troupe
223
Poem for My Father (for Quincy Trouppe, Sr.)
Quincy Troupe
225
Baby Boy
Michael Weaver
227
Anatomy
Kevin Young
228
XIV
Contents
io.
Whose Children Are These?
Gerald Barrax
229
the children of the poor
Gwendolyn Brooks
231
photograph
Lucille Clifton
232
The Furious Boy
Toi
233
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen
Rita Dove
234
for the Third Time Before Bed
Fourteen
James A. Emanuel
235
Nikki-Rosa
Nikki Giovanni
236
Black Cryptogram
Michael S. Harper
237
My Children
Lance
238
Motherhood
Georgia Douglas Johnson
239
Circling the Daughter
Etheridge Knight
240
Little Man Around the House
Yusef Komunyakaa
241
Now That I Am Forever with Child
Audre
242
Offspring
Naomi Long Madgett
243
Accessible Heaven
Thylias Moss
244
ii. They Are All op Me
Why Didnt He Tell Me the Truth
Amiri
245
In My Father s House
George Barlow
246
Kitchenette Building
Gwendolyn Brooks
248
Cousin Mary
Wanda Coleman
249
Family Secrets
Toi
251
Touching/Not Touching: My Mother
Toi
252
Taking in Wash
Rita Dove
253
Abraham Got All the Stars n the Sand
Ruth Forman
254
Mothers
Nikki Giovanni
255
Knoxville, Tennessee
Nikki Giovanni
257
Camp Story
Michael S. Harper
258
Kin2
Michael S. Harper
260
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
261
Big Zeb Johnson
Everett Hoagland
262
XV
Contenti
The Idea of Ancestry
Etheridge Knight
264
My Father s Loveletters
Yusef Komunyakaa
266
Black Mother Woman
Audre
267
Under the Oak Table
Colleen J. McElroy
268
Ruth
Colleen J. McElroy
270
Jasmine
E. Ethelbert Miller
273
One for All Newborns
Thylias Moss
• 274
Saturday Afternoon, When Chores Are Done Harryette Mullen
275
a poem for my father
Sonia
277
Little Girl Talk
Delores S. Williams
278
If he let us go now
Sherley Anne Williams
280
The Boiling
Kevin Young
281
12.
Ma Rainey
Sterling A. Brown
283
Hell Hound Blues
D. L. Crockett-Smith
285
Brother John
Michael S. Harper
286
Homage to the Empress of the Blues Robert Hayden
288
Jazzonia
Längsten
289
Walking Parker Home
Bob Kaufman
290
Copacetic Mingus
Yusef Komunyakaa
291
Glenn on Monk s Mountain
Nathaniel Mackey
292
Lamda
Melvin B.
294
Dancers
Afaa M. Weaver
295
The Art of Benny Carter
Al
296
13.
Nocturne at Bethesda Arna Bontemps
good friday Lucille Clifton
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Countee Cullen
Madam and the Minister Langston Hughes
Song of the Whirlwind Fenton Johnson
The Creation James Weldon Johnson
xn
Contents
Calvary Way
May Miller
307
Holy Days
Larry Neal
308
mama s God
Carolyn Rodgers
309
A New Nephilim
Afaa M. Weaver
310
Myself When I Am Real
Al
311
Revival
Kevin Young
312
Gray Day in January in La Jolla
Quincy Troupe
313
14.
The Scuba Diver Recovers the Body of
Gerald Barrax
315
a Drowned Child
The House of Falling Leaves
William Stanley Braithwaite
317
The Rites for Cousin
Gwendolyn Brooks
318
In Honor of David Anderson Brooks,
Gwendolyn Brooks
319
My Father
the death of thelma sayles
Lucille Clifton
320
The Charm
Rita Dove
321
A Death Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar
322
Wedding
Ruth Forman
323
We Assume: On The Death of Our Son,
Michael S. Harper
324
Reuben Masai Harper
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Michael S. Harper
325
Song for a Suicide
Längsten
326
Wake
Langston Hughes
327
Suicide s Note
Langston Hughes
328
Aunt Jane Allen
Fenton Johnson
329
Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)
James Weldon Johnson
330
Awe
Bob Kaufman
333
A Poem of Attrition
Etheridge Knight
334
Another Poem for Me
Etheridge Knight
335
(after Recovering from an
Please
Yusef Komunyakaa
336
My Mother
Claude McKay
338
Going Under
Carl Phillips
339
xvn
Contents
Annie
Patricia Smith
340
The Old People Speak of Death
Quincy Troupe
342
(for Grandmother
Solace
Margaret Walker
344
Wake
Kevin Young
345
15.
Family Affairs
Maya Angelou
347
Rhinemaiden
D. L. Crockett-Smith
349
Open Letter
Owen Dodson
350
Paradiso
Cornelius Eady
351
Walking Down Park
Nikki Giovanni
352
Dream Variation
Langston Hughes
354
I Dream a World
Langston Hughes
355
For Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
Langston Hughes
356
Lift Ev ry Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
357
The Gods Wrote
Keorapetse Kgositsile
358
I Have a Dream
Pat Parker
360
Daybreak
Sterling Plumpp
362
Now
Margaret Walker
363
In C.W s Closet
Afaa M. Weaver
364
The Song Turning Back Into Itself
Al
366
Biographies
369
Credits
391
Index
413
xnu
For over two centuries, black poets
have created verse that reflects
the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of
the African-American experience.
Reflecting their variety of visions and
styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-
Amencan Poetry aims to offer nothing
less than a definitive literary portrait of a
people.
Here are poems by writers as
different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and
W.E.B.
Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and
Amiri
Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel
Mackey. Acclaimed as a biographer and
editor, Arnold Rampersad groups these
poems as meditations on key issues in
black culture, including the idea of Africa;
the South; slavery; protest, and resistance;
the black man, woman, and child; sexual¬
ity and love; music and religion; spiritual¬
ity; death, and transcendence.
With their often starkly contrasting
visipns and styles, these poets illuminate
some of the more controversial and inti¬
mate aspects of the black American
experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly
a vehicle of protest but also an explo¬
ration of the more complex and tender
subtleties of black culture. One section of¬
fers tributes to celebrated leaders such as
Sojoumer
more reflect the heroism compelled by
everyday black life. The variety of poetic
forms and language captures the brilliant
essence of English as mastered by black
Americans dedicated to the art of poetry.
Loving and yet also honest and
unsparing, The Oxford Book of African-
American Poetry is for readers who trea¬
sure both poetry and the genius of black
America.
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD
is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the
Humanities and Associate Dean for the
Humanities at Stanford University. His
many books include the two-volume Life
of Langston Hughes; Days of Grace: A
Memoir (co-authored with Arthur Ashe);
and the definitive Collected Poems of
Langston Hughes.
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Contents
Introduction
xix
i.
a Poet Black
Today's News
Elizabeth Alexander
1
when
Lucille Clifton
2
Flame
Jayne Cortez
3
Nexus
Rita Dove
4
To the Pale Poets
Ray Durem
5
Why Do So Few Blacks Study
Cornelius Eady
6
Creative Writing?
Puttin' On The Dog (for "Corner Girl")
Everett Hoagland
7
"Michaelangelo" the Elder
Bob Kaufman
9
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
Etheridge Knight
10
Bloodbirth
Audre
11
Incantation (forjonetta)
E. Ethelbert
12
Blah-Blah
Harryette Mullen
13
Detroit Addendum
Murray Jackson
14
One sees pictures of Dante:
Carl Phillips
15
Poem (for the Blues Singers)
Sterling Plumpp
16
Not About Poems
Carolyn Rodgers
17
Three Legged Chairs
Lamont B. Steptoe
18
2,.
O
Robert Hayden
19
Afro-American Fragment
Langston Hughes
21
O
Lance
22
African Dream
Bob Kaufman
23
125th Street and Abomey
Audre
24
Song of the Andoumboulou:
Nathaniel Mackey
25
vc
Contenti
Outcast
Claude McKay
26
Gift from Kenya
May Miller
27
Exploring the Dark Content
Harryette Mullen
28
My Father's Geography
Afaa M. Weaver
29
3.
Loom of History
Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett, and Other
Maya Angelou
31
Latter-Day Saints
Three Modes of History and Culture
Amiri
33
Southern Road
Sterling A. Brown
35
Tour Guide:
Melvin Dixon
37
The House Slave
Rita Dove
39
Son of Msippi
Henry Dumas
40
(The Recent Past)
C.S. Giscombe
42
Middle Passage
Robert Hayden
43
Runagate Runagate
Robert Hayden
49
Go Left Out of Shantiville
Nathaniel Mackey
52
A Hambone Gospel
Lamont B. Steptoe
54
Song of the Son
Jean Toomer
56
4.
In My Father's House
Samuel Allen
57
Return of the Native
Amiri
59
Gordian Knot
Constance Quarterman Bridges
60
We Have Never Loved
Sam Cornish
61
Blackie Thinks of His Brothers
Stanley Crouch
62
Blackbottom
Toi
63
Sorrow is the Only Faithful One
Owen Dodson
64
Nigger Song: An Odyssey
Rita Dove
65
Afro-American
Henry Dumas
66
The Wrong Street
Cornelius Eady
68
Now
Christopher Gilbert
69
Alabama Poem
Nikki Giovanni
71
Tenebris
Angelina Weld
72
Contents
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Längsten
73
My People
Längsten
74
My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land
Lance
75
The Bones of My Father
Etheridge Knight
77
How I See Things
Yusef Komunyakaa
79
The Question of Identity
Kristin Lattany
81
The Black Unicorn
Audre
82
Song of the Andoumboulou:
Nathaniel Mackey
83
Swallow the Lake
Clarence Major
85
The
Colleen J. McElroy
87
Black Power
Raymond Patterson
89
Blue
Carl Phillips
90
Ballad of Black/ Essence (forJoseph Harrison) Eugene B. Redmond
91
Flounder
Natasha Trethewey
92
For My People
Margaret Walker
93
5.
Must Die
Poem for Halfwhite College Students
Amiri
95
Beverly Hills, Chicago
Gwendolyn Brooks
96
the ISM
Wanda Coleman
98
Death of Dr. King
Sam Cornish
99
Is It Because I Am Black?
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
100
Homestead, USA
D. L. Crockett-Smith
101
A Litany at Atlanta
W
102
America
Henry Dumas
106
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
107
The World I See
Mari
108
Night, Death, Mississippi
Robert Hayden
109
The Mob
Calvin Hernton
111
Dream Boogie
Längsten
113
Tired
Fenton Johnson
114
If We Must Die
Claude McKay
115
Watts
Conrad Kent Rivers
116
XI
Contents
Walk Like Freedom
Carolyn Rodgers
117
A Poem for Players
Al
118
6.
Shall Be Remembered
Robeson at Rutgers
Elizabeth Alexander
121
American Gothic/To Satch
Samuel Allen
122
For Malcolm: After Mecca
Gerald Barrax
123
Music for Martyrs
Gwendolyn Brooks
124
Malcolm X
Gwendolyn Brooks
125
harriet
Lucille Clifton
126
Harriet Tubman
Sam Cornish
127
In Mr. Turner's Fields
Sam Cornish
129
Banneker
Rita Dove
130
David Walker
Rita Dove
132
Saba
Henry Dumas
133
Frederick Douglass
Robert Hayden
134
Fired Up!! (forJudy Rollins)
Everett Hoagland
135
The Old Mongoose—for Mac
Murray Jackson
137
For Beautiful Mary Brown:
June Jordan
138
Chicago Rent Strike Leader
For Etheridge Knight
Lamont B. Steptoe
139
For Malcolm X
Margaret Walker
140
For Mary McLeod Bethune
Margaret Walker
141
A Dance for Ma Rainey
Al
142
7.
So Long
Jayne Cortez
145
If I Were Earth
Henry Dumas
146
Seduction
Cornelius Eady
147
The Anti-Semanticist
Everett Hoagland
148
Desire
Langston Hughes
150
Echo
Audre
151
Woman with Flower
Naomi Long Madgett
152
She Is Flat On Her Back (for K.F.)
E.Ethelbert Miller
153
Contents
Omnivore
Harryette Mullen
154
The Joy-
Harryette Mullen
155
Pretty Piece of Tail
Harryette Mullen
156
(For Poki)
A. X. Nicholas
157
Lévitation
Carl Phillips
158
Highflown: Love
Eugene B. Redmond
160
—
Sonia
161
of am I not yo
even if u went on shit again
The Source of the Singing
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
162
8.
She Our Sister?
Whispers in a Country Church
Alvin Aubert
163
The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
164
Jessie Mitchell's Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
165
Virginia Portrait
Sterling A, Brown
166
the lost baby poem
Lucille Clifton
168
song at midnight
Lucille Clifton
170
Grinding Vibrato
Jayne Cortez
171
On the Turning Up of Unidentified
Toi Derricotte
173
Black Female Corpses
Canary (for
Rita Dove
175
.
Mari
176
(The Gospel Singers)
Black Queen Blues (Finale)
Mari
177
She (for Carolyn Grace)
Christopher Gilbert
178
Soft Targets (for Black Girls)
Essex Hemphill
179
Stations
Audre
180
The Old Women
Naomi Long Madgett
182
1915
Clarence Major
183
Illusion
Colleen J. McElroy
184
The Circus of the City
Colleen J. McElroy
186
Lessons from a Mirror
Thylias Moss
188
Anatomy
Harryette Mullen
189
xiii
Contenti
Eyes in the Back of Her Head
Harryette Mullen
191
Tune for a Teenage Niece
Eugene B. Redmond
193
(for
Feminism
Carolyn Rodgers
194
There Is a House
Lamont B. Steptoe
195
Old Black Ladies Standing on
Quincy Troupe
196
Bus Stop Corners
Mama I Remember
Marilyn Nelson Waniek
199
9.
Blood to Blood
Alvin Aubert
201
Young Soul
Amiri
202
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
203
Strong Men
Sterling A. Brown
204
those boys that ran together
Lucille Clifton
207
Portraiture
Anita Scott Coleman
208
Knees of a Natural Man (forJay Wright)
Henry Dumas
209
Gifts
Murray Jackson
210
San Diego Goodbye
Murray Jackson
211
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
Helene
212
Losses
Yusef Komunyakaa
213
When Loneliness Is a Man
Yusef Komunyakaa
214
At
Colleen J. McElroy
215
a Year (for
Father (Part
Harryette Mullen
217
Father's Day
E. Ethelbert Miller
218
Epigrams for My Father
Eugene B. Redmond
219
(John Henry Redmond, Sr.)
To the Father of Me
Lamont B. Steptoe
221
Amateur Fighter (for my father)
Natasha Trethewey
111
Reflections on Growing Older
Quincy Troupe
223
Poem for My Father (for Quincy Trouppe, Sr.)
Quincy Troupe
225
Baby Boy
Michael Weaver
227
Anatomy
Kevin Young
228
XIV
Contents
io.
Whose Children Are These?
Gerald Barrax
229
the children of the poor
Gwendolyn Brooks
231
photograph
Lucille Clifton
232
The Furious Boy
Toi
233
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen
Rita Dove
234
for the Third Time Before Bed
Fourteen
James A. Emanuel
235
Nikki-Rosa
Nikki Giovanni
236
Black Cryptogram
Michael S. Harper
237
My Children
Lance
238
Motherhood
Georgia Douglas Johnson
239
Circling the Daughter
Etheridge Knight
240
Little Man Around the House
Yusef Komunyakaa
241
Now That I Am Forever with Child
Audre
242
Offspring
Naomi Long Madgett
243
Accessible Heaven
Thylias Moss
244
ii. They Are All op Me
Why Didnt He Tell Me the Truth
Amiri
245
In My Father's House
George Barlow
246
Kitchenette Building
Gwendolyn Brooks
248
Cousin Mary
Wanda Coleman
249
Family Secrets
Toi
251
Touching/Not Touching: My Mother
Toi
252
Taking in Wash
Rita Dove
253
Abraham Got All the Stars n the Sand
Ruth Forman
254
Mothers
Nikki Giovanni
255
Knoxville, Tennessee
Nikki Giovanni
257
Camp Story
Michael S. Harper
258
Kin2
Michael S. Harper
260
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
261
Big Zeb Johnson
Everett Hoagland
262
XV
Contenti
The Idea of Ancestry
Etheridge Knight
264
My Father's Loveletters
Yusef Komunyakaa
266
Black Mother Woman
Audre
267
Under the Oak Table
Colleen J. McElroy
268
Ruth
Colleen J. McElroy
270
Jasmine
E. Ethelbert Miller
273
One for All Newborns
Thylias Moss
• 274
Saturday Afternoon, When Chores Are Done Harryette Mullen
275
a poem for my father
Sonia
277
Little Girl Talk
Delores S. Williams
278
If he let us go now
Sherley Anne Williams
280
The Boiling
Kevin Young
281
12.
Ma Rainey
Sterling A. Brown
283
Hell Hound Blues
D. L. Crockett-Smith
285
Brother John
Michael S. Harper
286
Homage to the Empress of the Blues Robert Hayden
288
Jazzonia
Längsten
289
Walking Parker Home
Bob Kaufman
290
Copacetic Mingus
Yusef Komunyakaa
291
Glenn on Monk's Mountain
Nathaniel Mackey
292
Lamda
Melvin B.
294
Dancers
Afaa M. Weaver
295
The Art of Benny Carter
Al
296
13.
Nocturne at Bethesda Arna Bontemps
good friday Lucille Clifton
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks Countee Cullen
Madam and the Minister Langston Hughes
Song of the Whirlwind Fenton Johnson
The Creation James Weldon Johnson
xn
Contents
Calvary Way
May Miller
307
Holy Days
Larry Neal
308
mama's God
Carolyn Rodgers
309
A New Nephilim
Afaa M. Weaver
310
Myself When I Am Real
Al
311
Revival
Kevin Young
312
Gray Day in January in La Jolla
Quincy Troupe
313
14.
The Scuba Diver Recovers the Body of
Gerald Barrax
315
a Drowned Child
The House of Falling Leaves
William Stanley Braithwaite
317
The Rites for Cousin
Gwendolyn Brooks
318
In Honor of David Anderson Brooks,
Gwendolyn Brooks
319
My Father
the death of thelma sayles
Lucille Clifton
320
The Charm
Rita Dove
321
A Death Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar
322
Wedding
Ruth Forman
323
We Assume: On The Death of Our Son,
Michael S. Harper
324
Reuben Masai Harper
Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Michael S. Harper
325
Song for a Suicide
Längsten
326
Wake
Langston Hughes
327
Suicide's Note
Langston Hughes
328
Aunt Jane Allen
Fenton Johnson
329
Go Down Death (A Funeral Sermon)
James Weldon Johnson
330
Awe
Bob Kaufman
333
A Poem of Attrition
Etheridge Knight
334
Another Poem for Me
Etheridge Knight
335
(after Recovering from an
Please
Yusef Komunyakaa
336
My Mother
Claude McKay
338
Going Under
Carl Phillips
339
xvn
Contents
Annie
Patricia Smith
340
The Old People Speak of Death
Quincy Troupe
342
(for Grandmother
Solace
Margaret Walker
344
Wake
Kevin Young
345
15.
Family Affairs
Maya Angelou
347
Rhinemaiden
D. L. Crockett-Smith
349
Open Letter
Owen Dodson
350
Paradiso
Cornelius Eady
351
Walking Down Park
Nikki Giovanni
352
Dream Variation
Langston Hughes
354
I Dream a World
Langston Hughes
355
For Russell and Rowena Jelliffe
Langston Hughes
356
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson
357
The Gods Wrote
Keorapetse Kgositsile
358
I Have a Dream
Pat Parker
360
Daybreak
Sterling Plumpp
362
Now
Margaret Walker
363
In C.W's Closet
Afaa M. Weaver
364
The Song Turning Back Into Itself
Al
366
Biographies
369
Credits
391
Index
413
xnu
For over two centuries, black poets
have created verse that reflects
the sorrows, joys, and triumphs of
the African-American experience.
Reflecting their variety of visions and
styles, The Oxford Anthology of African-
Amencan Poetry aims to offer nothing
less than a definitive literary portrait of a
people.
Here are poems by writers as
different as Paul Laurence Dunbar and
W.E.B.
Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks and
Amiri
Mullen; Yusef Komunyakaa and Nathaniel
Mackey. Acclaimed as a biographer and
editor, Arnold Rampersad groups these
poems as meditations on key issues in
black culture, including the idea of Africa;
the South; slavery; protest, and resistance;
the black man, woman, and child; sexual¬
ity and love; music and religion; spiritual¬
ity; death, and transcendence.
With their often starkly contrasting
visipns and styles, these poets illuminate
some of the more controversial and inti¬
mate aspects of the black American
experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly
a vehicle of protest but also an explo¬
ration of the more complex and tender
subtleties of black culture. One section of¬
fers tributes to celebrated leaders such as
Sojoumer
more reflect the heroism compelled by
everyday black life. The variety of poetic
forms and language captures the brilliant
essence of English as mastered by black
Americans dedicated to the art of poetry.
Loving and yet also honest and
unsparing, The Oxford Book of African-
American Poetry is for readers who trea¬
sure both poetry and the genius of black
America.
ARNOLD RAMPERSAD
is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the
Humanities and Associate Dean for the
Humanities at Stanford University. His
many books include the two-volume Life
"of Langston Hughes; Days of Grace: A
Memoir (co-authored with Arthur Ashe);
and the definitive Collected Poems of
Langston Hughes. |
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