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Subject(s)

• African American men—Poetry [Browse]
• African Americans—Poetry [Browse]

Contents

• Foreword / Gwendolyn Brooks
• Preface / Bakari Kitwana
• Introduction / Haki R. Madhubuti
• Back Again, Home
• "Stereo"
• Wake-Up Niggers
• Re-Act For Action
• First Impressions On A Poet's Death
• Taxes
• Mainstream of Society
• "They Are Not Ready"
• Awareness
• The New Integrationist
• Statistics
• Two Poems
• Only A Few Left
• The Only One
• The Primitive
• Contradiction in Essence
• The Death Dance
• The Traitor
• Black Poetics/for the many to come
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• But He Was Cool or: he even stopped for green lights
• Communication in Whi-te
• Don't Cry, Scream
• A Poem to Complement other Poems
• Hero
• Black Sketches
• blackwoman
• The Third World Bond
• The Revolutionary Screw
• Reflections on a Lost Love
• A Poem Looking for a Reader
• Louder but Softer
• Blackman/an unfinished history
• Soft, Hard, Warm, Sure
• Judy-One
• Man Thinking About Woman
• Marlayna
• Big Momma
• Mixed Sketches
• Man and Woman --
• Blackgirl Learning
• On Seeing Diana Go Maddddddddd
• First
• We're an Africanpeople
• A Poem for A Poet
• Change is Not Always Progress
• Knocking Donkey Fleas off a Poet from the Southside of Chi
• Change
• Sun House
• One Sided Shoot-out
• For Black People
• See Sammy Run in the Wrong Direction
• We Walk the Way of the New World
• Move Unnoticed to be Noticed: A Nationhood Poem
• Change-up
• Positives: for Sterling Plumpp
• With All Deliberate Speed
• To Be Quicker for Black Political Prisoners on the Inside & Outside - Real
• An Afterword: for Gwen Brooks
• Mwilu/or Poem for the Living
• Discovering the Traitors
• Worldview
• Positive Movement Will Be Difficult but Necessary
• We Are Some Funny "Black Artists" and Everybody Laughs at Us
• Rise Vision Comin
• Hooked
• African Men
• Spirit Flight into the Coming
• Life Poems
• You Will Not Recognize Your Brothers
• Poetry
• The Petty Shell Game
• Message
• Expectations
• The Writer --
• Everything's Cool: Black America in the Early Eighties
• The Secrets of the Victors
• Is Truth Liberating?
• The Shape Of Things To Come
• Negro Leaderships
• Women Black: Why These Poems
• Maturity
• Abortion
• Safisha
• Winterman
• Lovepoems
• The Changing Seasons of Ife
• Lady Day
• Some of the Women are Brave
• Search Void of Fear
• Womenblack: We begin with You
• Struggle
• A Mother's Poem
• Rainforest
• In The Gut or Give Me Five
• The Destruction of Fathers
• Poet: for Larry Neal
• My Brothers
• The Damage We Do
• Rape: the male crime
• White on Black Crime
• A Poem for Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Earl Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Lou Rawls, &c., &c., &c., for Days
• Comin Strong
• Message to Our Sons
• For Blackmen with Integrity and Convictions
• Get Fired Up
• Hanging Hard in America
• America: the future
• Biko
• Sun and Storm
• End Notes
• Future --
• Earthquakes
• Sun Rise Missions
• Destiny
• Getting to this Place
• Killing Memory
• The Union of Two
• Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X
• Aberrations
• The End of White World Supremacy
• Searching
• Poet: Gwendolyn Brooks at 70
• Magnificent Tomorrows
• Always Remember Where You Are
• Poem Resulting from a Television Ad For The Color Purple
• Woman with Meaning
• Hoyt W. Fuller: No Easy Compromises
• First World
• Remarkable Music and Measure: Remembering the Fathers and the Sons
• Honest Search
• Moves
• Pollution: Part 1
• Poet: What Ever Happened to Luther?
• The Great Wait
• negro: an updated definition part 368
• Seeking Ancestors
• The B Network
• Black Manhood: Toward A Definition
• A Bonding
• Mothers
• Yes
• Culture
• Haiti
• White People are People too
• Rwanda: Where Tears have no Power
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Distinctive and Proud at 77
• Standing as an African Man: Black Men in a Sea of Whiteness --
• The Mission of a Good Man
• The State's Answer to Economic Development
• So Many Books, So Little Time
• Too Many of Our Young are Dying
• What Makes Him Happy.

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ISBN

• 0883781727 (hardcover)
• 0883781735 (paperback)

LCCN

96030118

OCLC

35212757

RCP

C - O

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