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Introduction | |
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A Lost Memory of Delhi | |
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Newark | |
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Sun with Issues | |
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Endangered Species | |
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from Elemental Journey: Anniversary Gift, #4 and #5 | |
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Hides | |
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San Jose: a poem | |
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Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley | |
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Hurakan: A Two Way Poem | |
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The Idea of Detroit | |
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Earth Chorus | |
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Shagoon 1-4 | |
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Animal Liberation | |
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Oaktown CA | |
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Chicago | |
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Africa | |
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The Steeple-Jack | |
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#8 from The Past | |
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At Yorktown | |
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La Jolla. In 3 Acts | |
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Earthquake Blues | |
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Chicago | |
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me | |
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Weather | |
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Every Where and Every When | |
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Cows and Alabama Folklore | |
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Hurricane Doris | |
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Love Poem to an Avocado from a Tomato | |
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Los Angeles | |
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Montana's Biggest Weekend | |
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Pear's Complaint | |
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Seeing Red | |
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Black Mountain Blues | |
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The Battle | |
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Woman | |
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The Brides Come to Yuba City | |
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Something Nice | |
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Untitled | |
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from Lives in Dreadful Wanting | |
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Love is Not a Word | |
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The Purpose of Altar Boys | |
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A Very Valentine | |
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Ringless | |
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The Widow's Lament in Springtime | |
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Bad Girl Blues | |
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Why Must U Be Unfaithful (4 Women) | |
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Bells | |
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A Place Without Shame | |
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In the Waiting Room | |
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Oh! Mercy Mercy Me! A Family Gathers to Marvin Gaye | |
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Callaloo | |
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Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife | |
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One Man's Family | |
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Good times | |
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The Names | |
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Grandmother Eliza | |
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April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa | |
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Aunt Helen | |
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Bicentennial Anti-Poem for Italian-American Women | |
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Dance of the Letters | |
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Winnings | |
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Joshua Clark | |
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Aerogramme 1-5: Los Angeles | |
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This Is the Poem I Never Meant to Write | |
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Doll | |
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Last Days of a Slow Cooker | |
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My Shattered Sister | |
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Hungry | |
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Turkey People | |
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Quill Holler Waller | |
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The Truth the Dead Know | |
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The Elders | |
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Uncle Good Intentions | |
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Easter: Wahiawa, 1959 | |
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Untitled | |
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For My Sister | |
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The Cloud Unfolding | |
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The Fat of the Land | |
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Six Families of Puerto Ricans | |
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It's in the Blood | |
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The Dirty Dozens | |
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And in the U.S.A. | |
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Integrating the Strawberry Swimming Pool in 1998 | |
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Killers | |
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Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races | |
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Giles Johnson, Ph.D. | |
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The Sony of the Smoke | |
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Speak the Truth to the People | |
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1933 | |
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Eli, Eli | |
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A Semi-Revolution | |
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Centennial year for the Spirits | |
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That God Made | |
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1990 | |
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Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria | |
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The Potato Manifesto | |
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Facing It | |
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What Were They Like? | |
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The Execution | |
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Milla: Mi abuela, Puerto Rico | |
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This Passover or the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem | |
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from America in 1918 | |
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For the Angry White Student Who Wanted to Know If I Thought White People Ever Did Anything Good for 'the Indians' | |
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Poem (I Lived in the First Century) | |
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Between the World and Me | |
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Coyote Makes the First People | |
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Ogun's Friend | |
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Song 1 from Three Songs From the 50's | |
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Skin of Clouds | |
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Helen | |
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Tribute to Duke | |
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Latin Music in New York | |
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Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955/March 30, 1999 | |
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Wolf Warrior | |
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A Ballad of the Life and Times of Joe Louis: The Great Brown Bomber | |
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Tiva's Tapestry: La Llorona | |
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Filling the Gap | |
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Skip The Byuppie | |
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Crootey Songo | |
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Sun Yat Sen Comes to Lodi | |
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Trickster Rabbit | |
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Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan | |
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Viewing Mona Lisa | |
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Six Movements for Portraits of Erzulie | |
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Lady Lazarus | |
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Disney's Cinderella | |
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Madonna for the Damned-a 1980's Heroine | |
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A Flower from Robert Kennedy's Grave | |
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from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You | |
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Dawnsong! | |
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A Poem for "Magic" | |
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Fallen | |
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Jerusalem Walked thru War | |
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For Malcolm X | |
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Searchin' | |
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The Imagists' Manifesto (1915) | |
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The Introduction to American Writers' Congress (1935) | |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1969) | |
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An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature (1975) | |
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Adieu a Charlot (Second Populist Manifesto) (1975-1978) | |
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The Rise of the White Shamon as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism | |
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from Pro Femina (1973) | |
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The Introduction to Stealing the Language, the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986) | |
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The Cannon (1999) | |
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Police State | |
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Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Permissions | |
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About the editor | |