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Edited by Ishmaei Reed THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS NEW YORK CONTENTS Ishmael Reed Introduction xv NATURE & PLACE Agha Shahid Ali A Lost Memory of Delhi 5 Evan Braunstein Newark 7 David Colosi Sun with Issues 8 William Cook Endangered Species 11 Alicia Gaspar de Alba from Elemental Journey: Anniversary Gift, #4 and #5 16 Diane Glancy Hides 20 Cynthia Gomez San Jose: a poem 22 Ray Gonzalez Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley 24 Linda M. Rodriguez Guglielmoni Hurakdn: A Two Way Poem 26 Jim Gustafson The Idea of Detroit 28 Juan Felipe Herrera Earth Chorus 30 Andrew Hope III Shagoon 1-4 32 Genny Lim Animal Liberation 34 Reginald Lockett Oaktown CA 37 Susan Marshall Chicago 39 Claude McKay Africa 40 Marianne Moore The Steeple-Jack 41 William Oandasan #8 from The. Past 43 Charles Olson At Yorktown 43 J. Cody Peterson Lajolla. In 3 Acts 45 Ishmael Reed Earthquake Blues 47 Carl Sandburg Chicago 49 Delmore Schwartz The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me 51 May Swenson Weather 52 Arthur Sze Every Where and Every When 54 Kathryn Takara Cows and Alabama Folklore 57 Lorenzo Thomas Hurricane Doris 59 Yumi Thomas Love Poem to an Avocado from a Tomato 63 Nick Van Brunt Los Angeles 64 Whitney Ward Montana's Biggest Weekend 65 Greg Youmans Pear's Complaint 67 Al Young Seeing Red 69 Bessie Smith Black Mountain Blues 70 MEN & WOMEN Gwendolyn Brooks The Battle 75 Ina Coolbrith Woman 76 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Brides Come to Yuba City 78 Jack Forbes Something Nice 81 Mandy Kahn Untitled 82 Alex Kuo from Lives in Dreadful Wanting 83 Eugene B. Redmond Love Is Not a Word 84 Alberto Ri'os The Purpose of Altar Boys 86 Gertrude Stein A Very Valentine 88 Diane Wakoski Ringless 88 William Carlos Williams The Widow's Lament in Springtime 91 Memphis Willie B. (Borum) Bad Girl Blues 93 Tupac Shakur Why Must U Be Unfaithful (4 Women) 95 FAMILY Jimmy Santiago Baca Bells 99 David Baraza A Place Without Shame 100 Elizabeth Bishop In the Waiting Room 102 Laura Soul Brown Oh! Mercy Mercy Me! A Family Gathers to Marvin Gaye 106 Chezia Thompson Cager Callaloo 110 Ana Castillo Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife 115 Rosemary Catacalos One Man's Family 117 Lucille Clifton good times 119 Billy Collins The Names 120 Nora Marks Dauenhauer Grandmother Eliza 122 Diane di Prima April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa 124 T. S. Eliot Aunt Helen 126 Daniela Gioseffi Bicentennial Anti-Poem for Italian-American Women 127 Vmce Gotera Dance of the Letters 129 Garrett Hongo Winnings 132 Maurice Kenny Joshua Clark 134 Russell Leong Aerogramme 1-5: Los Angeles 139 Colleen J. McElroy This Is the Poem 1 Never Meant to Write 150 Josephine Miles Doll 152 Mursalata Muhammad Last Days of a Slow Cooker 154 Naomi Quinonez My Shattered Sister 157 Luis J. Rodriguez Hungry 160 Brynn Noelle Saito Turkey People 163 Joan Self Quill Holler Waller 164 Anne Sexton The Truth the Dead Know 165 Charles Simic The Elders 166 Susie Silook Uncle Good Intentions 168 Cathy Song Easter: Wahiawa, 1959 171 Phillina Sun Untitled 175 Jannifer Traig For My Sister 176 Ernesto Trejo The Cloud Unfolding 178 Ronald Wallace The Fat of the Land 180 Terence Winch Six Families of Puerto Ricans 181 Nellie Wong It's in The Blood 183 Speckled Red The Dirty Dozens 187 POLITICS Miguel Algarfn And in the U.S.A. 193 Cecil Brown Integrating the Strawberry Swimming Pool in 1998 194 Cordelia Candelaria Killers 198 Lorna Dee Cervantes Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How 1, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races 199 Frank Marshall Davis Giles Johnson, Ph.D. 202 W. E. B. DuBois The Song of the Smoke 202 Mari Evans Speak the Truth to the People 204 Kenneth Fearing 1933 206 Jack Foley Eli, Eli 209 Robert Frost A Semi-Revolution 211 Sister Goodwin (Elizabeth Hope) Centennial Year for the Spirits 211 Will Heford That God Made 216 Bob Holman 1990 217 Langston Hughes Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria 223 Cynthia Hwang The Potato Manifesto 228 Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It 229 Denise Levertov What Were They Like? 230 Walter Lowenfels The Execution 232 Nancy Mercado Milla: Mi abuela, Puerto Rico 233 Hilton Obenzinger This Passover or the Next 1 Will Never Be in Jerusalem 235 John Reed from America in 1918 237 Wendy Rose For the Angry White Student Who Wanted to Know Ifl Thought White People Ever Did Anything Good for "the Indians" 240 Muriel Rukeyser Poem (1 Lived in the First Century) 242 Richard Wright Between the World and Me 243 HEROES & SHEROES, ANTI & OTHERWISE Peter Blue Cloud Coyote Makes the First People 249 Jayne Cortez Ogun's Friend 250 Victor Hernandez Cruz Song 1 from Three Songs From the 50's 254 Thulani Davis Skin of Clouds 255 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Helen 258 Sarah Webster Fabio Tribute to Duke 259 Jessica Hagedorn Latin Music in New York 265 Sam Hamod Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955; March 30, 1999 268 Joy Harjo Wolf Warrior 271 Calvin Hernton A Ballad of the Life and Times of Joe Louis: The Great Brown Bomber 274 Linda Hogan Tiva's Tapestry: La Llorona 287 Lawson Inada Filling the Gap , 288 Ted Joans Skip The Byuppie 291 Bob Kaufman Crootey Songo 293 Alan Chong Lau Sun Yat Sen Comes to Lodi 294 Roland Legiardi-Laura Trickster Rabbit 296 Vachel Lindsay Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan 301 Angela Martin Viewing Mona Lisa 312 Sandra McPherson 5/x Movements for Portraits ofErzulie 313 Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus 316 Tennessee Reed Disney's Cinderella 320 Corie Rosen Madonna for the Damned-a 1980's Heroine 322 Edward Sanders A Flower from Robert Kennedy's Grave 324 Frank Stanford from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says 1 Love You 328 Askia M. Toure Dawnsong! 334 Quincy Troupe A Poem for "Magic" 339 Samira Vijghen Fallen 341 Julia Vinograd Jerusalem Walked thru War 342 Margaret Walker For Malcolm X 344 Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller Searchin' 345 MANIFESTOS Amy Lowell The Imagists' Manifesto (1915) 356 Henry Hart The Introduction to American Writers' Congress (1935) 357 Haki K. Madhubuti Gwendolyn Brooks (1969) 368 Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusai Inada, and Shawn Wong An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese- American Literature (1975) 371 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Adieu a Chariot (Second Populist Manifesto) (1975-1978) 404 Geary Hobson The Rise of the White Shaman as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism 410 Carolyn Kizer from Pro Femina (1973) 424 Alicia Suskin Ostriker The Introduction to Stealing the Language, the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986) 427 Leslie Scalapino The Cannon (1999) 436 Dead Prez Police Slate - 454 Contributors 457 Acknowledgments 511 Permissions 513 About the editor 525.
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