Research Catalog

Title

Here in Harlem : poems in many voices / written by Walter Dean Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.

Publication

New York : Holiday House, ©2004.

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Details

Description

viii, 88 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry
• Young adult poetry, American
• American poetry
• African Americans
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry
• New York (State) > New York > Harlem

Genre/Form

• Lyric poetry.
• Poetry.

Awards (note)

• Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2005

Contents

Clara Brown's testimony, part I -- Mali Evans, 12, student -- Macon R. Allen, 38, deacon -- Henry Johnson, 39, mail carrier -- Willie Arnold, 30, alto sax player -- Terry Smith, 24, unemployed -- Clara Brown's testimony, part II -- Christopher Lomax, 60, retired -- Junice Lomax, 23, unemployed -- Hosea Liburd, 25, laborer -- William Riley Pitts, 42, jazz artist -- J. Milton Brooks, 41, undertaker -- John Reese, 70, ballplayer, janitor -- Eleanor Hayden, 51, nanny -- Tom Fisher, 38, blues singer, livery cabbie -- Dennis Chapman, 40, laborer -- C.C. Castell, 49, on disability -- Reuben Mills, 34, artist -- Jimmy Wall, 14, boy evangelist -- John Lee Graham, 49, street historian -- Willie Schockley, 23, street vendor, guitar player -- Etta Peabody, 60, insurance adjuster -- Delia Pierce, 32, hairdresser -- Clara Brown's testimony, part III -- Lois Smith, 12, student -- Jesse Craig, 38, salesman -- Richmond Leake, 53, newsstand dealer -- Helen Sweetland, 27, party girl -- Joshua De Grosse, 19, student, City College -- Betty Pointing, 64, clerk -- Jonathan Smalls, 29, urban planner -- Adam Crooms, 24, furniture mover -- Clara Brown's testimony, part IV -- Malcolm Jones, 16, student -- Gerry Jones, 14, student -- Mary Ann Robinson, 30, nurse, Harlem Hospital -- Ann Carter, 32/Benjamin Bailey, 32, switchboard operator/building maintenance -- Ernest Scott, 26, poet -- Caroline Fleming, 42, live-in maid -- Effie Black, 58, church organist -- Marcia Williams, 17, high school senior -- Harland Keith, 33, reporter -- Lawrence Hamm, 19, student athlete -- Sam DuPree, 28, hustler -- Clara Brown's testimony, part V -- Didi Taylor, 14, student -- Dana Greene, 18, education major, City College -- Bill Cash, 30, boxer -- William Dandridge, 67, mechanic -- Charles Biner, 57, composer, X-ray technician -- John Brambles, 55, numbers runner -- Homer Grimes, 83, blind veteran -- Frank Griffin, 82, veteran -- Lemuel Burr, 81, veteran -- Clara Brown's testimony, part VI -- Lydia Cruz, 15, student -- Kevin Broderick, 20, pre-law, City College -- Earl Prentiss, 39, motorman -- Clara Brown, 87 retired -- Some people, places, and terms--.

Call Number

Sc E 05-812

ISBN

• 9780823422128
• 0823422127
• 9780823418534
• 0823418537

LCCN

2003067605

OCLC

54504049

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.

Title

Here in Harlem : poems in many voices / written by Walter Dean Myers.

Imprint

New York : Holiday House, ©2004.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Study Program

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 5.9 1.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.9 1 83233.

Awards

Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2005

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Table of contents

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 05-812