Liberation narratives : new and collected poems 1966-2009 / Haki R. Madhubuti ; with a foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr. ; an introduction by Regina Jennings ; and an afterword by Lita Hooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943- author of foreword.

Jennings, Regina, author of introduction.

Hooper, Lita, author of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxx, 461 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Third World Press, [2009]

Summary:

"Not only did/does the poetry of Haki R. Madubuti (Don L. Lee) help define and sustain a movemenrt, his verse helped shift the paradigm of contemporary American poetry aesthetics. With its brash urgency and, often, quiet passion; the musicality and homage in Madhibuti's work continues to resonate. Here in this new offering, ... Madhubuti's words, vision and insights are preserved for a new generation of readers."--Cover.

"Haki R. Madhubuti's excellence as a poet is the sui generis literary correlate to his unique personal and social commitment to rigorous educational standards for the young, ending violence against women, and protesting genocidal conflicts that rage across our globe. Haki's poetry is a vessel and vehicle, an insistent , passionate call for social and redestributive justice."--Houston A. Baker Jr., Cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Houston A. Baker Jr.

Preface: Art II : reviewing a life, a calling

Introduction: The poetry of Haki R. Madhubuti aka Don L. Lee / Regina Jennings.

Poems from: Liberation narratives (2009)

Think black! (1966)

Black pride (1968)

Don't cry, scream (1969)

We walk the way of the New World (1970)

Directionscore = [Direction score] (1971)

Book of life (1973)

Earthquakes and sunrise missions (1984)

Killing memory, seeking ancestors (1987)

Black men (1991)

Claiming earth (1994)

GroundWork = [Ground work] (1996)

Heartlove : wedding and love poems = [Heart love] (1998)

Tough notes : a healing call for creating exceptional black men (2002)

Run toward fear (2004).

Afterword / Lita Hooper.

[Poems]: Liberation narratives: The last first

Studs

Alice

To the graduates

Thoughts on Bushism

Against the grain

Losing honor

Jews : a people and a culture

Greed is not enough : affinity theft

Art : a comment

Too late the truth

Recession proof sex

The secret of his success

you know, you know

Gwendolyn Brooks : no final words

Liberation narratives.

Think Black!: Introduction to Think black!

Back again, home

"Stereo"

Wake-up niggers

Re-act for action

First impressions of a poet's death

Taxes

Awareness

Education.

g Black pride: The new intergrationist

The cure all

Two poems

Only a few left

The self-hatred of Don L. Lee

The only one

In the interest of black salvation

The primitve

Message to a black soldier

Contradiction in essence

The death dance

The traitor.

Don't cry, scream: Foreword : A further pioneer / Gwendolyn Brooks

Preface : Black poetics/for the many to come

Gwendolyn Brooks

But he was cool, or, He even stopped for green lights

communication in whi-te

Don't cry, scream

Assassination

Blackrunners/blackmen or run into blackness = [Black runners/black men or run into blackness]

A poem to complement other poems

Hero

Black sketches

Blackwoman = [Black woman]

The third world bond

The revolutionary screw

Reflections on a lost love

A poem looking for a reader.

We walk the way of the new world: Introduction : Louder but softer

Blackman/an unfinished history = [Black man/an unfinished history]

Soft, hard, warm, sure

Judy-one

Man thinking about woman

Marlayna

Big Momma

Mixed sketches

Man and woman

Blackgirl learning = [Black girl learning]

On seeing Diana go maddddddddd

First

We're an Africanpeople = [We're an African people]

A poem for a poet

Change is not always progress

Knocking donkey fleas off a poet from the southside of chi

Change

Sun house

One sided shoot-out

For black people

See Sammy run in the wrong direction

We walk the way of the new world

Move un-noticed to be noticed : a nationhood poem

Change-up.

Directionscore: Positives : for Sterling Plumpp

With all deliberate speed

To be quicker for black political prisoners on the inside & outside

real

An aftwerword for Gwen Brooks

Mwilu/or poem for the living.

Book of life: Introduction : Discovering the traitors

Worldview

Positive movement will be difficult but necessary

We are some funny "black artist" and everybody laughs at us

Rise vision comin

Hooked

Afrikan men = [African men]

Spirit fight into the coming

Life poems (one through ninety-one)

You will recognize your brothers.

Earthquakes and sunrise missions: Poetry

The petty shell game

Message

Expectations

The writer

Everything's cool : black America in the early eighties

The secrets of the victors

Is truth liberating?

The shape of things to come

Negro leaderships

Women black : why these poems

Maturity

Abortion

Safisha

Winterman = [Winter man]

Lovepoems = [Love poems]

The changing seasons of life

Lady day

Some of the women are brave

Search void of fear

Womenblack : we begin with you = [Women black : we begin with you] Struggle

A mother's poem

Rainforest

In the gut or give me five

The destruction of fathers

Poet : for Larry Neal

My brothers

The damage we do

Rape : the male crime

White on black crime

A poem for Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Kareem Andul-Jabbar, James Earl Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Lou Rauls, &c, &c, &c, for days

Coming strong

Message to our sons

For blackmen with integrity and convicitons = [For black men with integrity and convicitons]

Get fired up

Hanging hard in America

America : the future

Biko

Sun and storm

End notes

Future

Earthquakes

Sun rise missions

Destiny

Afterword / Darwin T. Turner.

Killing memory, seeking ancestors: Introduction : Getting to this place

Killing memory

The union of two

Possibilities : remembering Malcom X

Aberrations

The end of white world supremacy Searching

Poet : Gwendolyn Brooks at 70

Magnificant tomorrows

Always remember where you are

Poem resulting from a television ad for The Color Purple

Woman with meaning

Hoyt W. Fuller : no easy compromises

First world

Remarkable music and measure : remembering the fathers and the sons

Honest search

Moves

Pollutions : part 1

Poet : whatever happened to Luther?

The great wait

negro : an updated definition, part 368

Seeking ancestors.

Black men: The B network

Black manhood : toward a definition

A bonding

Mothers

Yes.

Claiming earth: Culture

Haiti

White people are people too

Rwanda : where tears have no power

Gwendolyn Brooks : distinctive and proud at 77.

Groundwork: Foreword / Gwendolyn Brooks

Standing as an African man : black men in a sea of whiteness

The mission of a good man

The state's answer to economic development

So many books, so little time - Too many of our young are dying

What makes him happy

A calling.

Heartlove: Maintaining loveships

Dark rooted : the joining

Answers : this magic moment

Breathing the breadth of the other

Long distance lovers

Quiet mountains to your elegance

Translations

Contemplating full orchards

Memories are made for poets

The reconsitution of all their days and nights

The preparation chant

The only time

Love gets too much credit until it finds you

Tough love

She never grew up

Why she loves him

Laini

For Mariama

In our tradition

Alone much of the time

Risk everything

Often hard to believe

Parting lovers, a closing wirh renewing possibilities Voices with loaded language

Quality : Gwendolyn Brooks at 73

Being here

Volcanoes in the souls of children

All children are precious

Why you are here

Jimmy Ice

Courage

Brad

This poet Gwendolyn Brooks at eighty

Etta

if you lose your optimism you're in serious trouble

Grandfathers : they speak through me

Books as answer

Peace starts inside you.

Tough notes: A poet's call

Black women have been our answers, no matter what the questions

Fathers and sons : the healing call

Reparations : the United States' debt owed to black people.

Run toward fear: Fear

In another land

Legal lottery

Chicago is Illinois country

Art

What do you say?

Wasted life

We need not whisper

Gate keepers

Missed information

Laws of the street

Can you write a non-struggle poem?

Amiri

Baraka II

Baraka III

Why Shani?

Remembering Betty Shabaz Bones

A mixture of rain, rice, and silence

The journey

We family

Our daughter on loan

Black earth

When 21 is more than a number

Eighty-three is a wise number

Gwendolyn Brooks Illinois State Library : the naming

Word founder

Water

The sea of your language

Heart work

Useni

Aunt Mayme

Duke

Tee one in a complex world

Maya : we honor our own

For R. Kelly

Wynton

Butt for sale : the gateway to factualization

What we didn't know

For the consideration of poets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Poetry, Winner, 2010

ISBN:

9780883782897

9780883783146

0883782898

0883783142

OCLC:

154667808