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Into Africa, being black : new and selected poems / Fred Lee Hord.
LIBRA PS3558.O67 I58 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hord, Fred L.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 170 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Third World Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okparal), full professor and Direction of Africana Studies at Knox College, is Founder, past President and current Executive Director of the national Association for Black Culture Centers. He is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism, and editor of Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity. Hord also co-edited a college text on Africana philosophy with Jona than Scott Lee entitled I Am Because We Are. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- After(h)ours
- After(h)ours 3
- Black Seed 4
- Full Grown Pain 5
- We Have Been Men 6
- Life Sentences
- Life Sentences 11
- Prize Apart 14
- Recompense 15
- The He'll of My Dancing Dust 16
- Sick and Tired of This Mesh 18
- Wish I Were Your Perfect Rhyme 20
- Middle Class Black Man 22
- Small Town Links 23
- Tough Losses 25
- Coming Off a High 27
- As Tall As a Man 28
- Airlines: To a Black Stewardess 30
- Definitions 32
- After the Tears, Our Years 34
- Black Daddy 37
- Even Your Daddy Gets Gray 38
- Survival of the Fittest 40
- An Ace So Black, He's Royal 42
- Spelman, Spell Woman 45
- From an African Father 48
- To Black Women 49
- Love Before Integration 50
- Out Love Ain't Evol 52
- For Your Questions 56
- Black Axe: Cleaving for Song 57
- Words 60
- Beside the Movement 62
- Love in Season 64
- How Could I Not Love You? 66
- Holy 67
- Nuptials 68
- Straight Wobblings of My Father
- Africa to Me 71
- Reading Too Much Music 73
- Africa on My Mind 75
- Dry Bones of Freedom 77
- Black Time 79
- Real Malcolin 81
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz: Going Through Changes 83
- Independence 84
- Invited to the White House 85
- Children of Violence 87
- Black Judgments 88
- No Mote Centuries 89
- No One 90
- Dropping Names and Soul 91
- Mixing Black Metaphors 92
- America to Me 94
- The Rhythm of Home 96
- To a Black Father After Fifty 97
- Strong Enough to Need You 98
- Straight Wobblings of My Father 99
- Sunday Bootleg Saviors 100
- Hothouse Flowers: Speaking With Inmates 102
- Respite 103
- Black Boy Needing a Brother 104
- Taking Whipping for Each Other 106
- Saluting Kin Who are Black and Poor 108
- Bronze Plated Mother 110
- Know Children Here 112
- Swishing Pants and Pitching Caps 113
- Jumping the Broom and Crossing Sticks 115
- Black Woman Keeping Me Young 116
- Quilting Races Together 117
- It Is Where My Heart Was Born 118
- Into Africa, Being Black
- The Rivers Speak of Negroes 122
- Waiting for God(or) to Come Down 124
- Beyond Vietnam 126
- Grid Irons and Spring: To a Best Friend 128
- Camp Ground Meeting 130
- Fixing Things 132
- Returning Home 134
- Father Away 135
- One Fork 137
- Another First Decade 139
- Eulogy for Baby B(r)Othering 141
- Laurel and Toussaint 143
- A Song You Have the Music To 145
- Ella Baker: Lifted by Others Climbing 147
- Valleys in Mountaintops 149
- King: A Class Act 151
- Conversation Dreams of a King and President 153
- Finding Our Next Freedom High 156
- Home Less 157
- Leaving Prayer Meeting Early 159
- Daughters Striking Color 161
- Birth Days 163
- Excuse Me! I Didn't See Anyone Else 165
- Slave Ads Without the Wanted 167
- Watching Blankets Move: An Early Eulogy 168
- Your Eyes Have It: A Black Man Listens 170.
- ISBN:
- 9780883783498
- 0883783495
- OCLC:
- 862790231
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