Folks like me / by Sam Cornish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cornish, Sam.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Poetry.

African Americans.

History.

Genre:

History.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

111 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, [1993]

Summary:

Sam Cornish's fourth collection of poems spans the time from the Depression through the early 1960s in cities across America. It was a period when segregation was the law and was accepted by virtually all whites and some blacks. The book is a political portrait presenting the voices of the African-American community. Some, like Paul Robeson, confused and shocked their peers by looking toward communism and socialism, others upheld a middle-class system rooted in the values of church and community. The subjects of the poems include James Baldwin, Joe Louis, the Scottsboro Boys, the early bus boycotts, and tensions between neighborhoods and families that erupted into sudden violence. The tone is one of hope and optimism as well as tragedy and turmoil. The underlying theme of political identity focuses on an awakening that changed urban areas across the country when America was still struggling with the presence of a subculture that it was unwilling to accept as part of its social fabric.

Contents:

Perfect Day

General

Sojourner

Why I Did Not Give My Seat To That White Man in 1932

Horseface

Honky Tonk

American As A Cabin

Christian Hair

Workers of The Soil

Ma

Riot

If The Negro Cannot See Work As Honorable

Pauli Murray

D.W. Griffith Elegy

Elegy

My Darkness Burns the Cross

The Road That Lies Beneath

Eleanor Roosevelt

Literary New England

Not Long For The Day

Coke Bottle Glasses

Negro Enough for Me

Walter White

Have You Heard the Little Presbyterian Children Sing

Southern Sisters

Preacher's Yellow Son

Sunday Morning

Eddie Loves Little Lulu

While Lincoln is Still Thinking

Frederick Douglass

Annals of the Poor

Sweet Tooth

Renters

Folks Like Me

What Can (Blind) Lemon Do?

Hard Times

Landlord You're Wearin' the Door Out

Drinking A Hard Work Day

Unemployment Line Blues

Blues Let Me Tell You

Meat

The Lincoln Brigade

Negro Communists

Negro Communists 2.

Forever Robeson

Dusk Song for the Brown Bomber

His Fingers Seem To Sing

Tap

Harlem Is the Place of Joyful Negro Song or, Trying to Understand Gershwin's Good Intentions

Deep Chocolate

Street Song

Apricot Bright and Tan

Sewer

Strong

Black is a Negro Full of Speeches

Thoughts of a Georgia Boy

Marcus Garvey To be a Negro

Scottsboro Boy

The Talented 90%

Spring 1931

Negro Hero in Ebony Magazine or, Life Magazine for the Black Bourgeoisie

Claude McKay

I Married A Communist

Picket Lines and Rubber Hose Wherever l Go

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been

Ebony

Robert W. Lee

Life Has Kicked Me

To Howard Fast

Historical Novelists

Black Bolsheviks I Have Known

I Had Negro Friends...

Homegrown Nigger #1

Home Grown Nigger #2

John's Poem: We Are Brothers & Talk That Way

Long Hair God Almighty Nappy Hair

Almost Gone

From Our Terrible Heart

Blues (A Christian Fundamentalist Speaks)

James Baldwin.

Emmett Till (August 1955)

1953

Sleeping So Long the Bus Boycott

Half A Negro

Larry Neal

Since I Have Seen You

1960

Ohio After The Shooting At Kent State (June 1970)

12/1/87

Robert Hayden

Glossary.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Cornish, Sam. Folks like me.

ISBN:

0944072305

9780944072301

OCLC:

27069135

Online:

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