Words of protest, words of freedom : poetry of the American civil rights movement and era.

Door: Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar.

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• ISBN: 9780822351030
• Uitgever: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012. Paperback. xvi, 358 [2] pp. Conditie: nieuw
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• Extra informatie: - Contents : Journey toward freedom -- 1. "Had she been worth the blood?" : the lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 -- Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher -- The better sort of people / John Beecher -- A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks -- On the state of the union / Aimé Césaire -- Temperate belt : reflections on the mother of Emmett Till / Durward Collins Jr. -- Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel -- Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicola´s Guille´n -- Mississippi 1955 (to the memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes -- Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam -- Salute / Oliver Pitcher -- 2. "Godfearing citizens/with Bibles, taunts and stones" : the Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958 -- The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Little Rock / Nicola´s Guille´n -- School integration riot / Robert Hayden -- My blackness is the beauty of this land / Lance Jeffers -- 3. "The FBI knows who lynched you" : the murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 -- Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird -- Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce -- For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray -- Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray -- 4. "Fearless before the waiting throng" the life and death of Medgar Evers -- Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- American (in memory of Medgar Evers) / R.D. Coleman -- For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow -- Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer -- Micah (in memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker -- 5. "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone" : the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, 15 September 1963 -- Escort for a president / John Beecher -- American history / Michael S. Harper -- Here where Coltrane is / Michael S. Harper -- Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes -- Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde -- Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Ballad for four children and a president / Edith Segal -- September 1963 / Jean Valentine. 6. "What we have seen/Has become history, tragedy" : the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 -- Belief / A.R. Ammons -- Elegy for JFK / W.H. Auden -- Formal elegy / John Berryman -- The assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks -- On not writing an elegy / Richard Frost -- At the Brooklyn docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert -- Verba in memoriam / Barbara Guest -- Until death do us part / Anselm Hollo -- A night picture of Pownal / Barbara Howes -- Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow -- Jacqueline / Will Inman -- Down in Dallas / X.J. Kennedy -- In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler -- Four days in November / Marjorie Mir -- Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Soloman -- Not that hurried grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas -- November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco -- The gulf / Derek Walcott -- 7. "Deep in the Mississippi thicket/I hear the mourning dove" : the search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 -- A commemorative ode / John Beecher -- Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir -- The book of Job and a draft of a poem to praise the paths of the living / George Oppen -- The demonstration / Gregory Orr -- Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson -- Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner -- When Black people are / A.B. Spellman -- For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker -- 8. "We are not beasts and do not/Intend to be beaten" : riots, rebellions, and uprisings, 1964-1971 -- Riot : 60's / Maya Angelou -- Attica, U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird -- Finish / Charles Bukowski -- Heroes / Karl Carter -- Revolutionary letter #3 / Diane di Prima -- A mother speaks : the Algiers Motel incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper -- Keep on pushing / David Henderson -- Poem against the state (of things) : 1975 / June Jordan -- On the birth of my son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester -- The gulf / Denise Levertov -- Coming home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine -- If we cannot live as people / Charles Lynch -- Kuntu / Larry Neal -- Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) -- In Orangeburg my brothers did / A.B. Spellman -- 9. "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke" : the assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 -- A poem for Black hearts / Amiri Baraka -- For Malcolm : after Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax -- Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Judas / Karl Carter -- Malcolm / Lucille Clifton -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden -- Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter) / Etheridge Knight -- Malcolm X, an autobiography / Larry Neal -- At that moment / Raymond Patterson -- If blood is black then spirit neglects my unborn son / Conrad Kent Rivers -- Malcolm / Sonia Sanchez -- For Malcolm who walks in the eyes of our children / Quincy Troupe -- For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker -- That old time religion / Marvin X -- 10. "In the panic of hooves, bull whips and gas" : Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, 1965 -- Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston -- The road to Selma / June Brindel -- Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky -- The sun of the future / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Race relations / Carolyn Kizer -- Alabama centennial / Naomi Long Madgett -- On a highway east of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr -- Crumpled notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela. 11. "Set afire by the cry of / Black Power" : the birth and legacy of the Black Panther Party -- The Black mass needs but one crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver -- Apology (to the Panthers) / Lucille Clifton -- Revolutionary letter #20 / Diane di Prima -- For Angela / Zack Gilbert -- May King's prophecy / Allen Ginsberg -- Black power (for all the beautiful Black Panthers east) / Nikki Giovanni -- Newsletter from my mother : 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper -- [Let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins -- The day the audience walked out on me, and why / Denise Levertov -- One sided shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Revolutionary suicide / Huey P. Newton -- We called him the General / Melvin Newton -- The Panther, after Rilke / Craig Randolph Pyes -- From "Ghazals : homage to Ghalib" / Adrienne Rich -- 12. "America, self-destructive, self-betrayed" : the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 4 April 1968 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The meeting after the savior gone, 4/4/68 / Lucille Clifton -- A poem to my brothers killed in combat or something about a conversation with my father after Rev. King was killed / Ebon Dooley -- How to change the U.S.A. / Harry Edwards -- Reflections on April 4, 1968 / Nikki Giovanni -- April 5th / Donald L. Graham -- What color? / Nicola´s Guille´n -- Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden -- Rites of passage (to M.L.K., Jr.) / Audre Lorde -- Two walls / Robert Lowell -- Assassination / Haki Madhubuti -- April fourth / Robert Mezey -- Martin Luther King, Malcolm X / Muriel Rukeyser -- Elegy for Martin Luther King / Le´opold Se´dar Senghor -- Black Thursday / Victor Manuel Rivera Toledo -- White weekend (April 5-8, 1968) / Quincy Troupe -- Amos, 1963 / Margaret Walker -- Amos (postscript, 1968) / Margaret Walker -- 13. "A gun/struck, as we slept, a caring public man" : the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 5 June 1968 -- Assassination raga / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The assassination / Donald Justice -- Season of lovers and assassins / Carolyn Kizer -- For Robert Kennedy / Robert Lowell -- For Robert Kennedy / Al Purdy -- A flower from Robert Kennedy's grave / Edward Sanders -- Elegy / Derek Walcott -- Freedom to kill / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- 14. "Mighty mountains loom before me and I won't stop now" : struggle, survival, and subversion during the civil rights era -- Black art / Amiri Baraka -- Poem for half white college students / Amiri Baraka -- Free world notes / John Beecher -- Georgia scene : 1964 / John Beecher -- War and silence / Robert Bly -- Passive resistance / Margaret Danner -- Revolutionary letter #8 / Diane di Prima -- Revolutionary letter #9 / Diane di Prima -- Freedom rider : washout / James A. Emanuel -- Adulthood / Nikki Giovanni -- Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni -- Mississippi voter rally / Bruce Hartford -- Grenada march #107 / Bruce Hartford -- The last river / Galway Kinnell -- Poem, small and delible / Carolyn Kizer -- Revolutionary mandate 1 / Julius Lester -- A note to Olga (1966) / Denise Levertow -- For the Union dead / Robert Lowell -- Midway / Naomi Long Madgett -- Be nobody's darling / Alice Walker.
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