Sweet Solitude: New and Selected Poems

, by Slade Jr, Leonard A.

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ISBN: 9781438433455 | 143843345X
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Copyright: 8/1/2010

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New and selected poems on love, faith, And The African American experience.

From Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer (1988)
The Black Man Speaks of Rivers, Part 2: a Tribute to Langston Hughes	p. 2
Acquaintances	p. 3
The Black Madonna	p. 4
The Anniversary	p. 5
The Country Preacher's Folk Prayer	p. 6
God's Gender	p. 8
The Mansion	p. 9
By the Side of the Road	p. 10
Race	p. 11
Elegy for Therman B. O'Daniel	p. 12
From The Beauty of Blackness (1989)
The Beauty of Blackness	p. 14
Transition	p. 16
Sleepless Now	p. 18
Cat	p. 19
When I Heard from the Tax Man	p. 20
A Child's Play	p. 21
A Black Man's Song	p. 22
Spring	p. 23
To an Apostle of Peace	p. 24
From I Fly Like a Bird (1992)
Birds	p. 26
Black Woman	p. 27
His Professor	p. 28
Overcharged	p. 29
Drinking	p. 30
And Want No More	p. 32
Garden Party	p. 34
What Are You, Life?	p. 35
Grief	p. 36
We Mourn a Sweet Soul	p. 37
From The Whipping Song (1993)
The Whipping Song	p. 40
Peace Will Come	p. 41
For My Forefathers	p. 42
The Street Man	p. 43
Love Should Grow, Not Wither	p. 44
Rain	p. 45
A Plea for Peace	p. 46
Before the Death of Dad	p. 47
Winds of Change	p. 48
From for the Love of Freedom (2000)
For the Love of Freedom	p. 50
The Black Hair	p. 51
Why Are You Laughing?	p. 52
The Saint	p. 53
A Song for the Black Woman	p. 54
From Vintage (1995)
There Will be Blacks in Heaven	p. 56
Strangers	p. 57
From Pure Light (1996)
Pure Light	p. 60
Calling all Black Men	p. 61
Words	p. 62
Your Life is Over for You if	p. 63
Sunrise	p. 64
In Praise of Shoeshines	p. 65
So Happy	p. 66
Innocence in Black and White	p. 67
Budget Cuts	p. 68
I Fly Away	p. 69
How Great You Are	p. 70
From Neglecting the Flowers (1997)
Black and Beautiful	p. 72
Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College on March 22, 1997	p. 73
Reverend Hotair	p. 74
Neglecting the Flowers	p. 75
Like Douglass	p. 76
Bury Yourself Now	p. 77
On the Death of Mothers	p. 78
Tongue	p. 79
Burp	p. 80
To Mephistopheles	p. 81
Come, Prince of Peace	p. 82
Good Manners	p. 83
Love	p. 84
From Lilacs in Spring (1998)
I Came, I Saw, I Dreamed	p. 86
The Country Club in the Academy	p. 87
Lilacs in Spring	p. 88
Song for a Beautiful Lady	p. 89
Boss Hogg	p. 90
Thank You, Abe!	p. 91
From Elisabeth and Other Poems (1999)
The Good Queen Bess	p. 94
Mother Africa	p. 95
Working on the Farm in 1947	p. 96
Marry This Poem	p. 98
Departure	p. 99
Embden Pond	p. 100
Robert Lewis (Our Samoyed)	p. 101
From Jazz After Dinner (2007)
Jazz After Dinner	p. 104
And When I Die	p. 105
I Am a Black Man	p. 106
Black Philosophy	p. 107
Morning After Morning	p. 108
Forgiveness	p. 109
New Poems (2008)
Heifer	p. 112
Picnic	p. 113
What I Need Is	p. 114
I Want to Live While You Love Me	p. 115
Highway to Love	p. 116
I Do Love You	p. 117
Brothers	p. 118
Characteristics	p. 119
Claudia, Back Home	p. 120
Elegy for Emmanuel	p. 121
Grapes	p. 122
Today	p. 123
Deacon	p. 124
The Vision of America	p. 126
The Geese	p. 127
God's Glory	p. 129
The Thought	p. 130
I Shall Pray	p. 131
Acknowledgments	p. 133
About the Author	p. 135
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