The 100 best African American poems : (*but I cheated) by Giovanni, Nikki, editor instant download

The 100 best African American poems : (*but I cheated) by Giovanni, Nikki, editor instant download

Includes index, Accompanying CD: \"Featuring performances on CD by Ruby Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many more friends ...\", Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove, Dedication: Aunt / Mari Evans -- For my people / Margaret Walker -- Leroy / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Ars poetica: Nov 7, 2008 / L Lamar Wilson -- Ka'ba / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Gwendolyn Brooks: -- When you have forgotten Sunday: the love story -- Sermon on the warpland -- We real cool -- Jazz baby is it in you / Antoine Harris -- I fade into the night / Adam Daniel -- Old Lem / Sterling A Brown -- I am accused of tending to the past / Lucille Clifton -- Mari Evans: -- I am a black woman -- Who can be born black? -- Nikki Giovanni: -- Nikki-Rosa -- Knoxville, Tennessee -- Dry spell / Kevin Young -- Robert Hayden: -- Those winter Sundays -- Frederick Douglass -- Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Choosing the blues / Angela Jackson -- My father's love letters / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Creation / James Weldon Johnson -- Negro love song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Lift every voice and sing -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- Between ourselves / Audre Lorde -- Union of two / Haki R Madhubuti -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Poem to complement other poems / Haki R Madhubuti -- No images / Waring Cuney -- Between the world and me / Richard Wright -- Langston Hughes: -- Theme for English B -- Harlem Suite: -- Easy boogie -- Dream boogie -- Dream boogie (variation) -- Harlem -- Good morning -- Same in blues -- Island -- Blue Terrance / Terrance Hayes -- Gwendolyn Brooks: -- Mother -- Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon --Last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till -- Sunset…