I AM THE DARKER BROTHER AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POEMS BY

REVISED EDITION

Edited and with an afterword by Arnold Adoff Drawings by Benny Andrews Introduction by Rudine Sims Bishop Preface by Nikki Giovanni

SIMON AND SCHUSTER BOOKS

FOR YOUNG READERS CONTENTS

Introduction by Rudine Sims Bishop 11 Foreword by Nikki Giovanni 17

LIKE I AM Me and the Mule Langston Hughes 20 The Rebel Mari Evans 21 We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks 22 Cross Langston Hughes 23 Aunt Jane Allen Fenton Johnson 24 The Whipping Robert Hayden 25 Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden 27 Flash Cards Rita Dove 28 Nikki-Rosa Nikki Giovanni 29 A Song in the Front Yard Gwendolyn Brooks 31 Flowers of Darkness Frank Marshall Davis 32 Juke Box Love Song Langston Hughes 34 The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face 3 5 Bronzeville Man with a Belt in the Back Gwendolyn Brooks 36 Madhouse Calvin C. Hernton 37 Ka'Ba Amiri Baraka 38 For Poets Al Young 40

r NIEDERS. STAATS-U.UNIV.-I BIBLICTHEK i COTTINGEN GENEALOGY Each Morning Amiri Baraka 44 A Moment Please Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) 45 The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes 47 Southern Mansion 48 0 Daedalus, Fly Away Home Robert Hayden 49 October Journey 51 Dust Bowl Robert A. Davis 55 A Ballad of Remembrance Robert Hayden 56 Middle Passage Robert Hayden 58 The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 66 Blackbottom Toi Derricotte 69 now poem, for us. Sonia Sanchez 71 Our Grandmothers Maya Angelou 73

SHALL BE REMEMBERED Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 80 Runagate Runagate Robert Hayden 81 Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall 85 Vaticide Myron O'Higgins 86 A Poem for Black Hearts Amiri Baraka 87 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children Quincy Troupe 89 To Richard Wright Conrad Kent Rivers 91 American Gothic Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) 92 When Mahalia Sings Quandra Prettyman 93 Yardbird's Skull Owen Dodson 95 Montgomery Sam Cornish 97 Here Where Coltrane Is Michael S. Harper 98 Martin Luther King Jr. Gwendolyn Brooks 100

8 IF WE MUST DIE // We Must Die Claude McKay 104 The Lynching Claude McKay 105 "So Quietly" Leslie Pinckney Hill 106 The Daybreakers Arna Bontemps 107 Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 108 OldLem Sterling A. Brown 109 Between the World and Me Richard Wright 111 When 1 Know the Power of My Black Hand Lance Jeffers 114 Lynching and Burning Primus St. John 116 Endangered Species AI 117

I AM THE DARKER BROTHER /, Too, Sing America Langston Hughes 122 A Black Man Talks of Reaping . Arna Bontemps 123 From the Dark Tower 124 On Passing Two Negroes on a Dark Country Road Somewhere in Georgia Conrad Kent Rivers 125 Beehive Jean Toomer 126 Tired Fenton Johnson 127 Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar 128 Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One Owen Dodson 129 If the Stars Should Fall Samuel Allen (Paul Vesey) 131 For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen 132 Incident Countee Cullen 133 We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar 134 Hokku: In the Falling Snow Richard Wright 135 Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen^ 136 The Train Runs Late to Harlem Conrad Kent Rivers 137 Award Ray Durem 138 Status Symbol Mari Evans 140 Black Is a Soul Joseph White 142 Jacket Notes Ishmael Reed 144

THE HOPE OF YOUR UNBORN The Still Voice of Harlem Conrad Kent Rivers 148 Dream Variation Langston Hughes 149 Listen Children Lucille Clifton 150 change-up Haki Madhubuti 151 Suicide Alice Walker 152 For Each of You Audre Lorde 153 The Men E. Ethelbert Miller 156 Poems for My Brother Kenneth, VII Owen Dodson 158 In Time of Crisis Raymond Richard Patterson 159 The Noonday April Sun George Love 160 After the Winter Claude McKay 161 Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France Conrad Kent Rivers 162 For My People Margaret Walker 164

Afterword: Thirty Years After Words 169 Notes 173 Biographies 183 Index to Authors 199 Index to First Lines 205

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