Black Sister

, by Stetson, Erlene

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ISBN: 9780253305121 | 0253305128
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/1/1982

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This chronologically arranged anthology covers black women poets from Wheatley to Giovanni.

Preface

xiii

Introduction

xvii

I. EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETS

(48)

Lucy Terry

Bars Fight, August 28, 1746

(1)

Phillis Wheatley

Selection from ``Liberty and Peace, A Poem''

(1)

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year

(1)

To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Work

(1)

On Imagination

(1)

ADA

Lines, Suggested on Reading 'An Appeal to Christian Women of the South

(2)

A. E. Grimke.

[Untitled]

(1)

Lines

(1)

To the Memory of J. Horace Kimball

(1)

Charlotte Forten [Grimke]

A Parting Hymn

(1)

Poem

(1)

To W.L.G. on Reading His 'Chosen Queen'

(1)

Sojourner Truth

Ain't I a Woman?

(2)

Frances E. W. Harper

A Double Standard

(1)

Vashti

(2)

Learning to Read

(2)

An Appeal to My Countrywomen

(1)

She's Free!

(1)

The Crocuses

(1)

The Mission of the Flowers

(3)

Henrietta Cordelia Ray

Robert G. Shaw

(1)

Idyl: Sunrise

(1)

Idyl: Sunset

(1)

To My Father

(1)

Milton

(1)

The Dawn of Love

(1)

Antigone and Oedipus

(2)

Clara Ann Thompson

His Answer

(1)

Mrs. Johnson Objects

(1)

Ann Plato

The Natives of America

(2)

To the First of August

(1)

Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend

(3)

II. TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETS

(246)

Rosalie Jonas

Ballade des Belles Milatraisses

(1)

Brother Baptis' on Woman Suffrage

(1)

Lucy Ariel Williams

Northboun'

(1)

Georgia Douglas Johnson

I Want to Die While You Love Me

(1)

The Heart of a Woman

(1)

My Little Dreams

(1)

Smothered Fires

(1)

Angelina Weld Grimke

A Mona Lisa

(1)

At April

(1)

To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimke

(2)

For the Candle Light

(1)

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Touche

(1)

Oriflamme

(1)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Sonnet

(1)

I Sit and Sew

(1)

Snow in October

(1)

Music

(1)

Anne Spencer

At the Carnival

(1)

Before the Feast of Shushan

(1)

Letter to My Sister

(1)

Substitution

(1)

Lady, Lady

(1)

Gwendolyn H. Bennett

Fantasy

(1)

Hatred

(1)

Song

(1)

Secret

(1)

Advice

(1)

To a Dark Girl

(1)

To Usward

(1)

Heritage

(1)

Helene Johnson

Bottled

(1)

Magalu

(1)

The Road

(1)

Trees at Night

(1)

Summer Matures

(1)

Carrie Williams Clifford

The Black Draftee from Dixie

(1)

Bessie Calhoun Bird

Proof

(1)

Pauli Murray

Dark Testament

(8)

Inquietude

(1)

Song

(1)

Mae V. Cowdery

I Sit and Wait for Beauty

(1)

Margaret Walker

Lineage

(1)

Kissie Lee

(1)

Molly Means

(2)

Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad

(2)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother

100

(1)

The Bean Eaters

101

(1)

The Birth in a Narrow Room

102

(1)

The Anniad

102

(9)

Appendix to the Anniad

111

(1)

May Miller

Gift from Kenya

112

(1)

Not That Far

113

(5)

Margaret Goss Burroughs

To Soulfolk

118

(1)

Black Pride

118

(2)

Only in This Way

120

(1)

Everybody But Me

121

(2)

Gloria C. Oden

This Child is the Mother

123

(4)

Naomi Long Madgett

Deacon Morgan

127

(1)

Exits and Entrances

128

(1)

Midway

128

(1)

Nomen

129

(1)

New Day

130

(1)

Black Woman

130

(1)

Margaret Danner

A Grandson is a Hoticeberg

131

(2)

The Rhetoric of Langston Hughes

133

(1)

At Home in Dakar

133

(1)

Kattie M. Cumbo

Nocturnal Sounds

134

(1)

Domestics

135

(1)

Black Sister

135

(1)

The morning after love

136

(1)

I'm a Dreamer

137

(1)

Ceremony

137

(2)

Sarah Webster Fabio

Back into the Garden

139

(1)

To turn from Love

140

(1)

All Day We've Longed for Night

141

(1)

Mari Evans

Daufuskie (Four Movements)

142

(2)

Jake

143

(1)

The People Gather

143

(1)

Janis

144

(1)

How Will You Call Me, Brother

144

(2)

...And the Old Women Gathered (The Gospel Singers)

146

(1)

Alice S. Cobb

The Searching

146

(1)

Angela Davis

147

(1)

June Jordan

Poem for Nana

148

(3)

Jayne Cortez

Orisha

151

(1)

Phraseology

152

(1)

Orange Chiffon

153

(1)

Under the Edge of February

153

(2)

So Many Feathers

155

(2)

In the Morning

157

(3)

Grinding Vibrato

160

(1)

Della Burt

Spirit Flowers

161

(1)

A Little Girl's Dream World

162

(1)

On the Death of Lisa Lyman

163

(1)

Fareedah Allah

Hush, Honey

164

(3)

Cinderella

167

(3)

Funky Football

170

(3)

You Made It Rain

173

(1)

The Generation Gap

174

(1)

Lawd, Dese Colored Chillum

175

(1)

Carolyn M. Rodgers

Poem for Some Black Women

176

(2)

Masquerade

178

(2)

Jesus Was Crucified or: It Must Be Deep

180

(3)

U Name This One

183

(1)

Linda Piper

Sweet Ethel

183

(1)

Missionaries in the Jungle

184

(1)

Carole C. Gregory

Love Letter

185

(1)

Revelation

185

(3)

A Freedom Song for the Black Woman

188

(2)

The Greater Friendship Baptist Church

190

(1)

Jo Ann Hall-Evans

Cape Coast Castle Revisited

191

(1)

Seduction

192

(1)

Johari M. Kunjufu

Ceremony

192

(2)

Return

194

(1)

The Promise

195

(1)

Irma McClaurin

The Mask

195

(1)

To a Gone Era

196

(1)

I, Woman

197

(1)

Audre Lorde

Coal

198

(1)

Chain

199

(2)

Summer Oracle

201

(1)

Harriet

202

(1)

Naturally

203

(1)

The Woman Thing

204

(1)

Gayl Jones

3-31-70

205

(4)

tripart

209

(1)

Satori

210

(1)

Many Die Here

210

(2)

Alice Walker

Revolutionary Petunias

212

(1)

Once

213

(10)

Early Losses: A Requiem

223

(5)

Pinkie Gordon Lane

On Being Head of the English Department

228

(1)

When You Read This Poem

229

(1)

Sexual privacy of Women on Welfare

230

(1)

Migration

231

(1)

Who Is My Brother?

232

(1)

Nocturne

233

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

Nikki-Rosa

233

(1)

Woman Poem

234

(2)

Mother's Habits

236

(1)

Knoxville, Tennessee

237

(1)

Patricia Parker

From the Cavities of Bones

238

(1)

I Followed a Path

239

(1)

there is a woman in this town

240

(2)

Sonia Sanchez

Memorial

242

(3)

poem at thirty

245

(1)

summer words for a sister addict

246

(1)

Lucille Clifton

The Lost Baby Poem

247

(1)

My Mama Moved among the Days

248

(1)

Miss Rosie

248

(1)

Patricia Jones

i done got so thirsty that my mouth waters at the thought of rain

249

(2)

Why I Like Movies

251

(2)

Sherley Anne Williams

The Empress Brand Trim: Ruby Reminisces

253

(1)

Say Hello to John

254

(1)

The House of Desire

255

(5)

Driving Wheel

260

(4)

Maya Angelou

Woman Me

264

(1)

Still I Rise

265

(1)

My Arkansas

266

(1)

Sepia Fashion Show

267

(1)

On Diverse Deviations

267

(1)

Ntozake Shange

nappy edges (a cross country sojourn)

268

(2)

Dark Phrases

270

(2)

No More Love Poems #1

272

(1)

frank albert & viola benzena owens

273

(3)

Thadious M. Davis

It's All the Same

276

(1)

Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer

277

(1)

Double Take at Relais de L'Espadon

277

(2)

``Honeysuckle was the Saddest Odor of All, I Think.''

279

(1)

Asante Sana, Te Te

280

(1)

Melba Joyce Boyd

Sunflowers and Saturdays

281

(2)

Why?

283

(2)

Beer Drops

285

(1)

Colleen J. McElroy

Ruth

286

(2)

Caledonia

288

(2)

Looking for a Country, Under Its Original Name

290

(1)

A Woman's Song

291

(4)

Bibliography

295

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Black Sister

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