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An apron full of beans: new and selected poems
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Publisher
CavanKerry Press
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Introduction
An Apron Full of Beans
Pictures of My Mother
In Mr. Sanders' Barbershop
Being in a Box is Better Than Dying like Jesus
The River Just Keeps On Going
Fanny Kemble
Hungry
In Mr. Turner's fields
The Time Is Drawing Near
Preacher Nat
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman Is Moses
Finding the Railroad With My Feet
My Father Stole Away
John Brown
The Overland Mail
Woman In A Red Dress
Harriet Brings Runaways North
Frederick Douglass
While Lincoln Is Still Thinking
Runaway Song
Age
Almost Gone
Rivers to Cross
Man With The Devil On His Tail
Big Boy Leaves Home
A Photograph or Two
Apricot Bright and Tan
Ebony
My Old Gal My Honey
Liver Lips
Workers of the Soil
Chocolate
Toomer's Gone
Sewer
His Fingers Seem to Sing
Pitcher of Lemonade
Uncles
Deep Chocolate
Here Comes Sunday Morning
Have You Heard the Little Presbyterian Children Sing?
Sooner or Later
When My Grandmother Died
Brotherman
With A Word On My Lips, I Fight
Since I Have Seen You
Annals of the Poor
Mississippi
Picture of My Grandfather
Why I Did Not Give My Seat to That White Man in 1932
A Poem's in His Head Just for You
The Short Unhappy Teen Years of Dirty Harriet
Dirty Harriet
Montgomery
Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song
Bigger Thomas Says Some Bad Niggers is Over Thirty.
I Am My Mother's Daughter
Young James B.
The World of (Some of) Our Fathers
Our Fathers
All We Have
They Won't Forget
Meat
Eleanor Roosevelt
Country Gathers Like A Single Person
Hiroshima My Love
Hogmeat
Some Chitterlings For Joe
Strong
The Green Hornet
The Clean Well Dressed Men
The Phantom Lady
Boogie Woogie
Jackie Robinson
Mister
Lady Day
Sucked His Dick Cut His Throat
Where The Daytime Falls
What I Don't Have in Spades
Southland
Carmen Jones
We Have Never Loved
Mama Mine
Negro Women of The Movies
Coffin and Digger
Street Song
Frankie Has A Song for You
Sinatra
Pickup On South Street
Taxi Driver
Mars Attacks
Thousands Make The Dusk Of Africa
Sweet Song
The South Was Waiting
To Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The River the World Knows
My Lord What A Morning
Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom School
Bus Boycott
The Vertical Negro
To Mr. Jim Crow
Lunch
Tired From Walking But Not Tired Enough to Sit Down in That Bus
That Kind of Preaching
James Baldwin
My Brother is Homemade
Things of the Street
Birmingham 1968
Death of Dr. King
Brother Poet
Ray Charles
Long Hair Thank God Almighty Nappy Hair
Black Poet Negro No More
1976
For Being There
Boom Box
Soldier's Story
The South Is My Home
Epilogue
Elegy
A Personal Glossary.
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9781933880099
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