Letters to America
Letters to America: contemporary American poetry on race
edited by Jim Daniels
Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1995.
ISBN: 0814325424
DDC: 811.54080355
LCC: PS595
Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction / Jim Daniels -- Francisco Alarcon -- Letter to America
-- Fareedah Allah -- Lawd, Dese Colored Chillum -- Carroll
Arnett/Gogisgi -- Powwow -- Song of the Breed -- Russell Atkins --
Late Bus (After a Series of Hold-Ups) -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- So
Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans -- There Are Black -- Peter
Blue Cloud -- The Old Man's Lazy -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Lovers of
the Poor -- Charles Bukowski -- the black poets -- Lorna Dee
Cervantes -- Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an
Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between Races
-- Daryl Ngee Chinn -- Not Translation, Not Poetry -- Skin Color from
the Sun -- Lucille Clifton -- in white america -- Sam Cornish --
Fannie Lou Hamer -- Jayne Cortez -- Give Me the Red on the Black of
the Bullet (For Claude Reece, Jr.) -- Jim Daniels -- Time,
Temperature -- Toi Derricotte -- St. Peter Claver -- The Weakness --
Blackbottom -- The Struggle -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Yuba
City School -- Jimmie Durham -- Columbus Day -- Cornelius Eady --
Sherbet -- Thrift -- The Supremes -- Why Do So Few Blacks Study
Creative Writing? -- False Arrest -- Alfred Encarnacion -- Bulosan
Listens to a Recording of Robert Johnson -- Martin Espada -- Bully --
Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits -- Calvin Forbes -- The Poet's
Shuffle -- Charles Fort -- For Martin Luther King -- Christopher
Gilbert -- Pushing -- Theory of Curve -- Diane Glancy -- Kemo Sabe --
The First Reader, Santee Training School, 1873 -- Joy Harjo --
Autobiography -- Anchorage -- Michael S. Harper -- Song: I Want a
Witness -- Linda Hogan -- The Truth Is -- Garrett Kaoru Hongo --
Redress: Thinking It Through -- Langston Hughes -- Sweet Words on
Race -- Dinner Guest: Me -- T. R. Hummer -- The Ideal -- David
Ignatow -- For Medgar Evers -- Harold -- June Jordan -- What Would I
Do White? -- A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters --
Lawrence Joseph -- Sand Nigger -- Lonny Kaneko -- Bailey Gatzert: The
First Grade, 1945 -- Richard Katrovas -- Sky -- Black English --
Carolyn Kizer -- Race Relations -- Etheridge Knight -- For Black
Poets Who Think of Suicide -- A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in
Prison -- The Warden Said to Me the Other Day -- Dark Prophecy: I
Sing of Shine -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Report from the Skull's Diorama
-- Tu Do Street -- Audre Lorde -- Afterimages -- Colleen J. McElroy
-- Foul Line - 1987 -- From Homegrown: An Asian-American Anthology of
Writers -- Naomi Long Madgett -- Images -- The Race Question --
Thylias Moss -- Lessons from a Mirror -- David Mura -- Letters from
Poston Relocation Camp (1942-45) -- Sharon Olds -- On the Subway --
Simon Ortiz -- Upstate -- Dudley Randall -- Black Poet, White Critic
-- The Idiot -- David Ray -- The Eskimo Girl -- John Repp -- Going
Full-Court -- Leo Romero -- If Marilyn Monroe -- Kate Rushin -- The
Black Back-Ups -- Ira Sadoff -- Nazis -- Civil Rights -- Betsy Sholl
-- Midnight Vapor Light Breakdown -- Outside the Depot -- Dawn --
Gary Soto -- Mexicans Begin Jogging -- Ernesto Trejo -- The Cloud
Unfolding -- Gail Tremblay -- Indian Singing in 20th Century America
-- Quincy Troupe -- Poem For My Father -- Boomerang: A Blatantly
Political Poem -- Amy Uyematsu -- Fortune Cookie Blues -- December 7
Always Brings Christmas Early -- Ellen Bryant Voigt -- At the Movie:
Virginia, 1956 -- Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- Women's Locker Room --
Star-Fix -- Alderman -- Tom Wayman -- Hating Jews -- Michael S.
Weaver -- The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights -- C. K. Williams --
Racists -- Robert Winner -- Segregated Railway Diner - 1946 -- Nellie
Wong -- Can't Tell -- Baron Wormser -- Soul Music -- James Wright --
On a Phrase from Southern Ohio -- Al Young -- A Poem for Players --
W. H. Auden & Mantan Moreland -- Kevin Young -- No Offense -- Al
Zolynas -- Love in the Classroom.
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