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245 04 The 100 best African American poems :|b(but I cheated) /
       |cedited by Nikki Giovanni. 
246 3  One hundred best African American poems 
264  1 Naperville, Ill. :|bSourcebooks MediaFusion,|c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    228 pages ;|c21 cm +|e1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.) 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
500    Accompanying CD:  "Featuring performances on CD by Ruby 
       Dee, Novella Nelson, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Alexander, 
       Sonia Sanchez, Robert Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, and many 
       more friends..." 
505 00 |tDedication: the aunt / |rMari Evans -- |tFor my people /
       |rMargaret Walker -- |tLeroy / |rAmiriBaraka (LeRoi Jones)
       -- |tKa'Ba / |rAmiri Baraka (LeRoi jones) -- |tWhen you 
       have forfotten Sunday : the love story / |rGwendolyn Brook
       s-- |tThe sermon on the warpland / |rGwendolyn Brooks -- 
       |tWe real cool / |rGwendolyn Brooks -- |tJazz baby is it 
       in you / |rAntoine harris -- |tOfade omtp tje mogjt  
       |rAdam Daniel -- |tOld Lem / |rSterling A. Brown -- |tI am
       accused of tending to the past / |rLucille Clifton -- |tI 
       am a black woman / |rMari Evans -- twho can be born black?
       / |rMari Evans -- |tNikki-Rosa / |rNikki Giovanni -- 
       |tKnoxville, Tennessee / |rNikki Giovanni -- |tThe dry 
       spell / |rKevin Yount -- |tThose winter Sundays / |rRobert
       Hayden -- |tFrederick Douglass / |rRobert Hayden -- |tThe 
       negro speaks of rivers / |rLangston Hughes -- |tChoosing 
       the blues / |rAngela Jackson -- |tMy father's love letters
       / |rYusef Komunyakaa -- |tThe creation / |rJames Weldon 
       Johnson -- |tA negro love song / |rPaul Laurence Dunbar --
       |tLift every voice and sing / |rJames Weldon Johnson -- 
       |tGo downdeath / |rJames Weldon Johnson -- |tBetween 
       ourselves / |rAudre Lorde -- |tThe union of two / |rHaki 
       R. Madhubuti -- |tBallad of Birmingham / |rDudley Randall 
       -- |ta poem to complement other poems / |rHaki r. 
       madhubuti -- |tno images / |rWaring Cuney -- |tBewteen the
       world and me / |rRichard Wright -- |tTheme for English B /
       |rLangston Hughes -- |tEasy boogie / |rLangston Hughes -- 
       |tDream boogie / |rLangston Hughes -- |tDream boogie: 
       variation / |rLangston Hughes -- Harlsm / |rLangston 
       Hughes -- Good morning / |rLangston Hughes -- |tThe blue 
       terrance / |rTerrance hayes -- The mother / |rGwendolyn 
       Brooks -- |tA Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. 
       Meanwhile, a Mississippi mother burns bacon / |rGwendolyn 
       Brooks -- |tThe last quatrain of Emmett Till / |rGwendolyn
       Brooks -- |tAunset of the city / |rGwendolyn Brooks -- 
       |tThings I carried coming into the world / |rRemica L. 
       Bingham -- |tTopography / |rRemica L. Bingham -- Beneath 
       me / |rJericho Brown -- |tAutobiography / |rJericho Brown 
       -- |tParable of the sower / |rPamela Sneed -- |tHeritage /
       |rCountee Cullen -- |tYet do I marvel / |rCountee Cullen -
       - |tIncidet / Countee Cullen -- |tWe wear the mast/ |rPaul
       Laurence Dunbar -- |tTrifle / |rGeorgia Douglas Johnson --
       |tThe heart of a woman / |rGeorgia Douglas Johnson -- 
       |tWoman with flower / |rNaomi Long Maqdgett -- The idea of
       ancestry / |rEtheridge Knight -- |tDon't say goodbye to 
       the porkpie hat / |rLarry Neal -- |tCleaning / |rCamile T.
       Dungy -- |tBoston year / Elizabeth Alexander -- |tShe 
       wears red / |rJackie Warren-Moore -- |tCommercial break: 
       road-runner, uneasy / |rTom Seibles -- |tBefore making 
       love / |rToi Derricotte -- |tBe-bopo / |rSterling Plumpp -
       - |tPersonal letter no. 3 / Sonia Sanchez -- |tPoem at 
       thiryt / |ronia Sanchez -- |tA poem for Sterling Brown /
       |rSonia Sanchez -- |tMarchers headed forWashington, 
       Baltimore, 1963 / |rRemica L. Bingham -- |tAnd yea... this
       is a love poem / |rNikki Giovanni -- |tThe carousel / 
       |rGloria C. Oden -- |tOnly everything I own / |rPatricia 
       Smith -- |tLot's daugher dreams of her mother / |rOpal 
       Moore -- |tThe girlfriend's train / |rNikky Finney -- 
       |tBack from the arms of big Mama / |rAfaa Michael Weaver -
       - |tMama's promise / |rMarilyn Nelson -- |tBop: a 
       whistling woman / |rLyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- |tHomage 
       to my hips / |rLucille Clifton -- |tTrain ride / |rKwame 
       Dawes -- |tTrain rides / |rNikki giovanni -- |tA great 
       granddaddy speaks / |rLamont B. Steptoe -- |tEddie 
       Priest's barbershop & notary / |rKevin Young -- |tView of 
       the library of congress from Paul Laurence Dubar high 
       school / |rThomas Sayers Ellis -- |tDrapery factory, 
       Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / |rNatasha Trethewey -- 
       |tSome kind of crazy / |rMajor Jackson -- |tFrom / |rA. 
       Van Jordan -- |tFreedom candy / |rE. Ethelbert Miller -- 
       |tThe Supremes / |rCornelius Eady -- |tNikki save me / 
       |tNikki, if you were a song / |rKwane Alexander -- |tHaiku
       / |rDJ Renegade -- |tUntitled / |rNadir Lasana Bomani -- 
       |tThat and some mo'/ |rDJ renegade -- |tSometime in the 
       summer there's October / |rTony Medina -- |tDacing naked 
       on the floor / |rKwame Alexander -- |tHarriet Tubman's 
       email 2 master / |tTruth Thomas -- |tA river that flows 
       forever / |rTupac Shakur -- |tThe rose that grew from 
       concrete / |rTupac Shakur -- |tRochelle / |rReuben Jackson
       -- |tAll their stanzas look alike / |rThomas Sayers Ellis 
       -- |tFrom the center 2 the edge / |rAshan Bandele -- |tThe
       subtle art of breathing / |rAsha Bandele -- |tSouthern 
       university, 1962 / |rKevin Young -- Poetry should ride the
       bus -- |rRuth Forman -- |tBlues for Spring / |rColleen J. 
       McElroy -- |tThe bicycle wizard / |rSharan Strange -- 
       |tBicycles / |rNikki Giovanni -- |tA clean slate / |rFred 
       D'Aguiar -- |tSong through the wall / |rAkua Lezli Hope --
       |tA seat saved / |rShana Yarborough -- |tSunday greens / 
       |rRita Dove -- |tThe untitled superhero poem / |rTonya 
       Maria Matthews -- |tMercy Killing / |rRemica L. Bingham --
       |tIf you saw a negro lady / |rJune Jordan -- |tEgo 
       tripping (there may be a reason why)  |rNikiki Giovanni. 
520    Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary 
       African American poets, as selected by an award-winning 
       black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert 
       Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove. 
650  0 American poetry|xAfrican American authors. 
650  0 African Americans|vPoetry. 
700 1  Giovanni, Nikki.