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| Editor's Note | |
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| Memorial II | |
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| Die for All Mysterious Things | |
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| A Family Resemblance | |
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| Coal | |
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| What My Child Learns of the Sea | |
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| Now That I Am Forever with Child | |
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| Bridge through My Windows | |
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| Second Spring | |
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| Spring III | |
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| Gemini | |
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| To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered on | |
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| Nightstone | |
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| Father Son and Holy Ghost | |
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| Pirouette | |
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| Generation | |
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| Echo | |
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| Oaxaca | |
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| Father, the Year is Fallen | |
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| If You Come Softly | |
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| Suffer the Children | |
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| A Child Shall Lead | |
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| A Lover's Song | |
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| Return | |
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| Suspension | |
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| Rites of Passage | |
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| Summer Oracle | |
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| Song | |
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| Spring People | |
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| Rooming Houses Are Old Women | |
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| Bloodbirth | |
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| After a First Book | |
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| Martha | |
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| And What about the Children | |
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| The Dozens | |
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| The Woman Thing | |
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| A Poem for a Poet | |
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| Conversation in Crisis | |
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| Sowing | |
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| Making It | |
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| On a Night of the Full Moon | |
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| Fantasy and Conversation | |
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| Dreams Bite | |
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| For Each of You | |
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| The Day They Eulogized Mahalia | |
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| Equinox | |
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| Progress Report | |
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| Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap | |
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| Black Mother Woman | |
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| As I Grow Up Again | |
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| The Seventh Sense | |
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| New Year's Day | |
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| Teacher | |
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| Moving out or the End of Cooperative Living | |
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| Moving in | |
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| Neighbors | |
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| Change of Season | |
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| Generation II | |
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| Love, Maybe | |
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| Relevant is Different Points on the Circle | |
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| Signs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Song of Names and Faces | |
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| Movement Song | |
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| The Winds of Orisha | |
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| Who Said It Was Simple | |
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| Dear Toni Instead of a Letter of Congratulation upon Your Book and Your Daughter Whom You Say You Are Raising to Be a Correct Little Sister | |
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| New York City 1970 | |
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| To My Daughter the Junkie on a Train | |
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| To Desi as Joe as Smoky the Lover of Ii5th Street | |
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| The American Cancer Society or There is More Than One Way to Skin a Coon | |
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| A Sewerplant Grows in Harlem or I'm a Stranger Here Myself When Does the Next Swan Leave | |
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| A Birthday Memorial to Seventh Street | |
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| One Year to Life on the Grand Central Shuttle | |
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| The Workers Rose on May Day or Postscript to Karl Marx | |
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| Cables to Rage or I've Been Talking on This Street Corner a Hell of a Long Time | |
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| Keyfood | |
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| A Trip on the Staten Island Ferry | |
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| My Fifth Trip to Washington Ended in Northeast Delaware | |
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| Now | |
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| To the Girl Who Lives in a Tree | |
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| Barren | |
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| Hard Love Rock #Ii | |
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| Memorial IV | |
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| Love Poem | |
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| Mentor | |
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| The Fallen | |
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| Separation | |
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| Even | |
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| Memorial III from a Phone Booth on Broadway | |
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| And Don't Think I Won't Be Waiting | |
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| For My Singing Sister | |
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| Monkeyman | |
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| Naturally | |
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| Song for a Thin Sister | |
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| Release Time | |
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| Revolution is One Form of Social Change | |
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| Oya | |
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| All Hallows Eve | |
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| Ballad from Childhood | |
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| Times Change and We Change with Them or We Seem to Have Lost Touch with Each Other | |
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| To Marie, in Flight | |
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| The Bees | |
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| et-Nam Addenda | |
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| sit to a City out of Time | |
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| The Brown Menace or Poem to the Survival of Roaches | |
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| Sacrifice | |
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| Blackstudies | |
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| Rites of Passage | |
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| Father Son and Holy Ghost | |
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| Coal | |
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| Rooming Houses Are Old Women | |
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| The Woman Thing | |
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| Oaxaca | |
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| Summer Oracle | |
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| Generation | |
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| A Family Resemblance | |
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| Song | |
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| On a Night of the Full Moon | |
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| Now That I Am Forever with Child | |
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| What My Child Learns of the Sea | |
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| Spring People | |
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| Poem for a Poet | |
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| Story Books on a Kitchen Table | |
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| Pirouette | |
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| Hard Love Rock | |
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| Father the Year Has Fallen | |
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| Gemini | |
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| Bridge through My Window | |
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| Conversations in Crisis | |
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| The Maiden | |
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| When the Saints Come Marching in | |
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| On Midsummer's Eve | |
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| Dreams Bite | |
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| Suspension | |
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| A Child Shall Lead | |
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| Afterlove | |
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| The Dozens | |
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| And What about the Children | |
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| For the King and Queen of Summer | |
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| Fantasy and Conversation | |
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| Paperweight | |
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| Martha | |
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| Memorial I | |
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| Memorial II | |
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| The Songless Lark | |
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| Anniversary | |
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| Second Spring | |
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| To a Girl Who Knew What Side Her Bread Was Buttered on | |
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| Power | |
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| School Note | |
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| Solstice | |
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| Scar | |
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| Between Ourselves | |
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| Outside | |
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| A Woman/Dirge for Wasted Children | |
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| The Black Unicorn | |
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| A Woman Speaks | |
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| From the House of Yemanj� | |
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| Coniagui Women | |
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| A Rock Thrown into the Water Does Not Fear the Cold | |
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| Dahomey | |
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| I25th Street and Abomey | |
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| The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors | |
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| Sahara | |
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| Harriet | |
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| Chain | |
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| Sequelae | |
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| For Assata | |
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| At First I Thought You Were Talking about | |
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| A Litany for Survival | |
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| Meet | |
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| Seasoning | |
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| Touring | |
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| Walking Our Boundaries | |
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| Eulogy for Alvin Frost | |
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| Chorus | |
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| Coping | |
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| To Martha: a New Year | |
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| In Margaret's Garden | |
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| Scar | |
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| Portrait | |
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| A Song for Many Movements | |
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| Brother Alvin | |
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| School Note | |
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| Digging | |
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| Outside | |
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| Therapy | |
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| The Same Death over and over or Lullabies Are for Children | |
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| Ballad for Ashes | |
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| A Woman/Dirge for Wasted Children | |
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| Parting | |
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| Timepiece | |
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| Fog Report | |
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| from Mother to Mother | |
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| Death Dance for a Poet | |
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| Dream/Songs from the Moon of Beulah Land I-V | |
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| Recreation | |
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| Woman | |
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| Timing | |
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| Ghost | |
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| Artisan | |
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| Letter for Jan | |
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| Bicentennial Poem # 21,000,000 | |
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| The Old Days | |
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| Contact Lenses | |
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| Lightly | |
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| Hanging Fire | |
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| But What Can You Teach My Daughter | |
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| From Inside an Empty Purse | |
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| A Small Slaughter | |
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| From the Greenhouse | |
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| Journeystones I-xi | |
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| About Religion | |
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| Sister Outsider | |
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| Bazaar | |
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| Power | |
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| Eulogy | |
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| Never Take Fire from a Woman | |
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| Between Ourselves | |
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| Future Promise | |
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| The Trollop Maiden | |
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| Solstice | |
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| A Glossary of African Names Used in the Poems | |
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| The Evening News | |
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| Za Ki Tan Ke Parlay Lot | |
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| Afterimages | |
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| A Poem for Women in Rage | |
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| October | |
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| Sister, Morning is a Time for Miracles | |
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| Needa Choral of Black Women's Voices | |
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| Sisters in Arms | |
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| To the Poet Who Happens to Be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to Be a Woman | |
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| Outlines | |
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| Stations | |
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| Equal Opportunity | |
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| Soho Cinema | |
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| Vigil | |
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| Berlin is Hard on Colored Girls | |
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| This Urn Contains Earth from German Concentration Camps | |
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| Mawu | |
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| Fishing the White Water | |
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| On the Edge | |
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| Naming the Stories | |
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| Diaspora | |
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| The Horse Casts a Shoe | |
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| Reins | |
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| Wood Has No Mouth | |
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| A Meeting of Minds | |
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| The Art of Response | |
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| From the Cave | |
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| A Question of Climate | |
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| Out to the Hard Road | |
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| Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem | |
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| For Judith | |
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| For Jose and Regina | |
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| Beverly's Poem | |
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| Big Apple Circus | |
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| Florida | |
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| Home | |
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| Burning the Water Hyacinth | |
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| Political Relations | |
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| Learning to Write | |
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| On My Way out I Passed over You and the Verrazano Bridge | |
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| Out of the Wind | |
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| Holographs | |
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| There Are No Honest Poems about Dead Women | |
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| A Question of Essence | |
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| For the Record | |
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| Ethiopia | |
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| Generation III | |
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| Never to Dream of Spiders | |
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| Beams | |
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| Call | |
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| Smelling the Wind | |
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| Legacy-hers | |
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| Making Love to Concrete | |
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| Echoes | |
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| Domino | |
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| Thaw | |
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| Party Time | |
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| Prism | |
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| Do You Remember Laura | |
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| Inheritance-his | |
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| The One Who Got Away | |
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| Depreciation | |
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| Syracuse Airport | |
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| Thanks to Jesse Jackson | |
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| Judith's Fancy | |
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| Production | |
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| Building | |
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| Jessehelms | |
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| Dear Joe | |
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| Women on Trains | |
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| The Politics of Addiction | |
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| Kitchen Linoleum | |
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| Oshun's Table | |
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| Parting | |
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| Peace on Earth | |
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| a Memorial-9/I8/9i | |
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| Starting All over Again | |
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| What It Means to Be Beautiful | |
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| Hugo I | |
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| Construction | |
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| Speechless | |
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| For Craig | |
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| East Berlin | |
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| The Night-Blooming Jasmine | |
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| Girlfriend | |
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| Lunar Eclipse | |
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| Change | |
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| Today is Not the Day | |
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| The Electric Slide Boogie | |
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| Index | |