Research Catalog

Title

Letters to America : contemporary American poetry on race / edited by Jim Daniels.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Daniels, Jim, 1956-

Description

230 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century
• African Americans > Poetry
• Race relations > Poetry
• Racism > Poetry
• Poésie américaine > 20e siècle
• Noirs américains > Poésie
• Relations raciales > Poésie
• Racisme > Poésie
• African Americans
• American poetry
• Race relations
• Racism
• Lyrik
• Rasse Motiv
• Racism
• United States > Race relations > Poetry
• États-Unis > Relations raciales > Poésie
• United States
• USA
• USA
• African Americans Poetry
• American poetry 20th century
• Race relations Poetry
• Racism Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Letter to America / Francisco Alarcon -- Lawd, dese Colored chillum / Fareedah Allah -- Powwow / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Song of the breed / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Late bus (after a series of hold-ups) / Russell Atkins -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- There are black / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud -- The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The Black poets / Charles Bukowski -- Poem fro the young White man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- No translation, not poetry / Daryl Ngee Chinn -- Skin color from the sun / Daryl Ngee Chinn -- In White America / Lucille Clifton -- Fannie Lou Hamer / Sam Cornish -- Give me the red on the black of the bullet (for Claude Reece, Jr.) / Jayne Cortez -- Time, temperature / Jim Daniels -- St. Peter Claver / Toi Derricotte -- The weakness / Toi Derricotte -- Blackbottom / Toi Derricotte -- The struggle / Toi Derricotte -- Yuba City School / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -- Columbus Day / Jimmie Durham -- Sherbet / Cornelius Eady -- Thrift / Cornelius Eady -- The Supremes / Cornelius Eady -- Why do so few Blacks study creative writing? / Cornelius Eady -- False arrest / Cornelius Eady -- Bulosan listens to a recording of Robert Johnson / Alfred Encarnacion -- Bully / Martin Espada -- Jorge the church janitor finally quits / Martin Espada -- The poet's shuffle / Calvin Forbes -- For Martin Luther King / Charles Fort -- Pushing / Christopher Gilbert -- Theory of curve / Christopher Gilbert -- Kemo Sabe / Diane Glancy -- The first reader, Santee Training School, 1873 / Diane Glancy -- Autobiography / Joy Harjo -- Anchorage / Joy Harjo -- Song: I want a witness / Michael S. Harper -- The truth is / Linda Hogan -- Redress: thinking it through / Garrett Kaoru Hongo -- Sweet words on race / Langston Hughes -- Dinner guest: me / Langston Hughes -- The ideal / T.R. Hummer -- For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow -- Harold / David Ignatow -- What would I do White? / June Jordan -- A poem about intelligence for my brothers and sisters / June Jordan -- Sand Nigger / Lawrence Joseph -- Bailey Gatzert: the first grade, 1945 / Lonny Kaneko -- Sky / Richard Katrovas -- Black English / Richard Katrovas -- Race relations / Carolyn Kizer -- For Black poets who think of suicide / Etheridge Knight -- A Wasp woman visits a Black junkie in prison / Etheridge Knight -- The warden said to me the other day / Etheridge Knight -- Dark prophecy: I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight -- Report from the skull's diorama / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Tu Do Street / Yusef Komunyakaa.
• Afterimages / Audre Lorde -- Foul line: 1987 / Colleen J. McElroy -- from Homegrown: an Asian-American anthology of writers / Colleen J. McElroy -- Images / Naomi Long Madgett -- The race question / Naomi Long Madgett -- Lessons from a mirror / Thylias Moss -- Letters from Poston Relocation Camp (1942-45) / David Mura -- On the subway / Sharon Olds -- Upstate / Simon Ortiz -- Black poet, White critic / Dudley Randall -- The idiot / Dudley Randall -- The Eskimo girl / David Ray -- Going full-court / John Repp -- If Marilyn Monroe / Leo Romero -- The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin -- Nazi / Ira Sadoff -- Civil rights / Ira Sadoff -- Midnight vapor light between / Betsy Sholl -- Outside the depot / Betsy Sholl -- Dawn / Betsy Sholl -- Mexicans begin jogging / Gary Soto -- The cloud unfolding / Ernesto Trejo -- Indian singing in 20th century America / Gail Tremblay -- Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe -- Boomerang: a blatantly political poem / Quincy Troupe -- Fortune cookie blues / Amy Uyematsu -- December 7 always brings Christmas early / Amy Uyematsu -- At the movie: Virginia, 1956 / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Women's locker room / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- Star-fix / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- Alderman / Marilyn Nelson Waniek -- Hating Jews / Tom Wayman -- The picnic, an homage to civil rights / Michael S. Weaver -- Racists / C.K. Williams -- Segregated railway diner: 1946 / Robert Winner -- Can't tell / Nellie Wong -- Soul music / Baron Wormser -- On a phrase from Southern Ohio / James Wright -- A poem for players / Al Young -- W.H. Auden & Mantan Moreland / Al Young -- No offense / Kevin Young -- Love in the classroom / Al Zolynas.

ISBN

• 0814325424
• 9780814325421

LCCN

95019996

OCLC

• ocm32625285
• 32625285
• SCSB-8415474

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library