This is my century : new and collected poems / Margaret Walker ; with a foreword by Nikky Finney and an introduction by Maryemma Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Margaret Walker became the first African American to win a national literary award when her collection For My People was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1942. Over the next fifty years she enriched American literature in endless ways through her writings and, in 1993, she received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. This Is My Century is Walker's own defining summation of her career. Selected by the author herself, the one hundred poems include thirty-seven previously uncollected pieces and the entire contents of three hard-to-find volumes: the award-winning For My People (1942), Prophets for a New Day (1970), and October Journey (1975).

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword Looking Up, Margaret Walker

Introduction: Margaret Walker and the Practice of Poetry

Preface

Acknowledgments

For My People

Foreword to For My People 1942

Dark Blood

We Have Been Believers

Southern Song

Sorrow Home

The Spirituals*

Ex-Slave*

Delta

Lineage

Since 1619

People of Unrest

Today

Molly Means

Bad-Man Stagolee

Poppa Chicken

Kissie Lee

Yalluh Hammuh

Two-Gun Buster and Trigger Slim

Teacher

Gus, the Lineman

Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie

Big John Henry

Childhood

Whores

Iowa Farmer

Memory

Our Need

The Struggle Staggers Us

Prophets For a New Day

Street Demonstration

Girl Held Without Bail

Now

Sit-ins

The Ballad of the Free

Jackson, Mississippi

Oxford Is a Legend

Birmingham

How Many Silent Centuries Sleep in My Sultry Veins?

At the Lincoln Monument Washington, August 28, 1963

For Malcolm X

For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney

Prophets for a New Day

Jeremiah

Isaiah

Amos, 1963

Amos (Postscript, 1968)

Joel

Hosea

Micah

Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad

Elegy

October Journey

Harriet Tubman

Epitaph for My Father

Ode on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Sixth President of Jackson State College

Dear Are the Names That Charmed Me in My Youth

I Want to Write

For Gwen, 1969

For Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Mary McLeod Bethune

Tribute to Robert Hayden

For Owen Dodson, 1983

Ballad for Phillis Wheatley

A Litany from the Dark People

This is My Century

This Is My Century

Giants of My Century

Five Black Men …

On Death and the Resurrection

My Mississippi Spring

Black Paramour

A Litany of Black History for Black People.

On Youth and Age

My Truth and My Flame

Chicago

1933

Monologue

On Youth and Age

Disillusion for Flower Children of Long Ago

Old Age

I Hear a Rumbling

Dies Irae

Love Song for Alex, 1979

Medgar Evers, 1925-1963

Birmingham, 1963

Jackson State, May 15, 1970

The Telly Boob-Tube on the Idiot Box

Africa

Money, Honey, Money

On Police Brutality

Power to the People

They Have Put Us on Hold

Inflation Blues

Solace

Fanfare, Coda, and Finale

Farish Street

The African Village

A Patchwork Quilt

The Crystal Palace

The House of Prayer

Small Black World

Black Magic

The Labyrinth of Life

Footnotes

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2013).

ISBN:

9780820342399

0820342394

OCLC:

861559194