YellowBlack The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life

Name: YellowBlack The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life
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ISBN: 9780883782750

ISBN-10: 0883782758

ISBN-13: 9780883782750

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Authors: Haki R. Madhubuti

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Powerful prose, poetry, and jazz riffs chronicle the first 21 years of the life of Haki R. Madhubuti, formerly Don L. Lee: poet, publisher, editor, and activist. He was raised by his mother Maxine, whose life is also recounted—including gritty details of how she used her body to feed, house, and shelter her children without help from their absentee father. Despite the obstacles in his childhood, music and literature molded the young Don Lee, effectively saving his life.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Third World Press
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Haki R. Madhubuti, an award-winning poet, educator, essayist, founder and publisher of Third World Press, is the author of thirty-one books. He is the co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and the co-founder of four schools in Chicago. He is a retired university professor. Madhubuti's latest book of poems is Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice.



Prologue: Yes



Yellow Black


1942


Don Luther Lee


Jimmy Lee: One


Little Rock


The World as We Knew it


The Book


"In Our House, There was God"


Fear


The First Poet


Jacklyn Ann


Maxine and Jimmy Lee


The Roads Between


Detroit


Jimmy Lee: Two


Street Lesson: One


Maxine


Jimmy Lee: Three


Don


Camden, Arkansas


Grandfather Graves


Johnny Graves


Aunt Mayme


Music


Libraries


Books and Music


Used Books: Finding Things of Value


The Neighborhood


Holidays


Jackie: "How Can I Protect You?"


Life Lesson: One


The Makings of a Poet


Aunt Sis


Helen Maxine


Don: Man of the House


Miss Barmaid of Detroit, 1948


Men of God


Helen Maxine: Two


Janice


Mable


The Catholic Church in Our Neighborhood


Friends


The First Time


Women Talk


1955


Helen Maxine: Three


The Only Love that I Knew


Music and Art


Facing Our History Was Like Vinegar On Open Wounds


Helen Maxine: The Last Conversation


Making Transitions


For Helen Maxine Graves Lee


Jimmy Lee: A Lesson from My Father


Jimmy Lee and Don


Fathers and Priests


1960


Door to Door: The Art of Language



The Making of Men


Basic Training


A Test of Leadership


I Waited


Learning in the Wilderness


Two Opposing Armies


January, 1961-El Paso, Texas


Last Trip to Juarez


Bloodsmiles



Shaping Thoughts


Richard Wright


Paul Robeson


The Re-education of a Negro


W.E.B. Du Bois


Black Art Museums


Ebony Museum of Negro History


Charlie and Margaret Burroughs


Malcolm X


Continuing Education


The Self-Hatred of Don L. Lee


Epilogue