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My conversation with Langston Hughes / Drew Nacht.
Van Pelt Library PS3614.A25 M93 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nacht, Drew, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- City and town life--Poetry.
- City and town life.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 88 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton : Africa World Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- All of the poems in My Conversation with Langston Hughes follow the same theme: the reaction to social injustice that permeates the everyday experiences of African Americans as they navigate life in the inner cities. The city of Chicago was the model that was imagined for each of the poems but it could just as well have been any American inner city with a significant black population. The poems speak to the suffering and hardship at the hands of prejudice but also to the hopes and dreams of a resilient people who have a such unique history in the ongoing story of America. The composer of all of the poems is imagined as a young black male who speaks his truth in the language of the streets he knows so well.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Zebulon V. Miletsky
- New black soldiers
- Auntie's stories
- Mission ongoing
- Lebron and his cape
- Freedom's pipe
- History lesson
- Dreaming of Jesus
- Last stand
- I spy
- Sunday morning
- Moonshine
- The terrorism blues
- Hollow man
- Tyshawn Lee Alley
- Side by side
- Lady Liberty and justice for all
- Planning ahead
- Mama's addiction
- Tug of war
- Anonymous on the street
- Prejudice
- Two barking kings
- Suicide watch
- 18th birthday nightmare
- New love
- Grandma's stories
- Color power
- Oreo cookie
- MLK re-born
- Trigger rhymer with nigger
- The fight
- New mother's prayer
- Cocky drug dealer
- Train ride
- Junior addict
- High strung before work
- Another bookworm king
- Young artist in the park
- Rent money
- I am an American
- Mr Blue Man
- Jailhouse fever
- Concrete bed
- Dark man in the White House
- Sleeping pill
- The power of song
- Heredity
- Message in a bottle
- Last thoughts
- After Obama
- Angela
- On his eighth birthday
- Frosty nigger
- What's America growing?
- Frost and the neighborhood
- One way street
- Random thoughts
- Vacationland
- Car trouble
- Nightmare
- Destiny
- Time to time
- Weak constitution
- Be it living or dead
- I have a dream
- Under pressure
- Freedom
- Freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781569025888
- 1569025886
- 9781569025895
- 1569025894
- OCLC:
- 1028601861
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