soulscript A Collection of Classic African

Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan. First published in 1970,soulscriptis a poignant, panoramic collection of poetry from some of the most eloquent voices in the art. Selected for their literary excellence and by the dictates of Jordan's heart, these works tell the story of both collective and personal experiences, in Jordan's words, "in tears, in rage, in hope, in sonnet, in blank/free verse, in overwhelming rhetorical scream." Soulscriptfeatures works by Jordan and other luminaries like Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jines, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Claude McKay, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Richard Wright, as well as the fresh voices of a turbulent era's younger writers. Celebrated spoken-word poet Staceyann Chin, an original cast member ofDef Poetry Jam on Broadway, has also added an introduction that speaks to Jordan's legacy, helping to further cementsoulscriptas a visionary compilation that has already become a modern classic.

JUNE JORDAN was an internationally recognized and beloved writer, teacher, and activist. The author of several books of poetry, including Kissing God Goodbye, Haruko/Love Poems, Who Look at Me, and Things That I Do in the Dark , she died from breast cancer in 2002.

Foreword
Introduction
Reflections	p. 3
Monument in black	p. 4
Foxey lady	p. 5
Epilogue	p. 6
I am waiting	p. 7
April 4, 1968	p. 8
Death prosecuting	p. 10
No way out	p. 11
Hands	p. 12
The air is dirty	p. 13
Dedication to the final confrontation	p. 14
Tripart	p. 15
Many die here	p. 16
Satori	p. 18
My people	p. 21
Mother to son	p. 22
Fruit of the flower	p. 23
Those winter Sundays	p. 25
Nikki-Rosa	p. 26
The bean eaters	p. 27
On the birth of my son, Malcolm Coltrane	p. 28
Award	p. 30
Five winters age	p. 31
Uncle Bull-boy	p. 32
To my son Parker, asleep in the next room	p. 34
Song of the Son	p. 36
Preface to a twenty volume suicide note	p. 37
Blues note	p. 41
At that moment (for Malcolm X)	p. 43
Runagate runagate	p. 45
Frederick Douglass	p. 49
Malcolm X - an autobiography	p. 50
In time of crisis	p. 53
The ballad of Rudolph Reed	p. 54
Blind and deaf old woman	p. 57
After winter	p. 58
Holyghost woman : an ole nomad moving thru the South	p. 60
Second Avenue encounter	p. 61
If you saw a Negro lady	p. 62
Ameican gothic	p. 67
Counterpoint	p. 68
The creation	p. 69
Reapers	p. 73
Beware : do not read this poem	p. 74
Mud in Vietnam	p. 76
lXVXII	p. 80
Of faith : confessional	p. 81
Brown river, smile	p. 83
The end of man is his beauty	p. 88
As a possible lover	p. 90
This age	p. 91
Sonnet	p. 92
Madhouse	p. 93
Number 5 - December	p. 97
Poem	p. 98
Song	p. 99
Naturally	p. 100
Summer Oracle	p. 101
Iron years : for money	p. 103
Off d pig	p. 104
A poem looking for a reader	p. 107
Moonlight moonlight	p. 110
Coal	p. 111
Air	p. 112
The distant drum	p. 113
It's here in the	p. 114
This morning	p. 115
Georia dusk	p. 119
The Louisiana weekly #4	p. 121
Right on : white America	p. 122
Rhythm is a groove (#2)	p. 123
Now, all you children	p. 124
Incident	p. 125
From riot rimes : USA	p. 126
From 26 ways of looking at a blackman	p. 127
Riot laugh & I talk	p. 128
I substitute for the dead lecturer	p. 129
I have seen black hands	p. 131
In memoriam : Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (part one)	p. 134
Motto	p. 139
The White House	p. 140
O Daedalus, fly away home	p. 141
November cotton flower	p. 142
I know I'm not sufficiently obscure	p. 143
Sorrow is the only faithful one	p. 144
An Agony. As now	p. 145
Midway	p. 147
One thousand nine hundred & sixty - eight winters	p. 148
Yet do I marvel	p. 149
Dream variation	p. 150
We have been believers	p. 151
Nocturne varial	p. 153
From the dark tower	p. 154
We wear the mask	p. 155
If we must die	p. 156
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