My Black me : a beginning book of Black poetry / edited by Arnold Adoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adoff, Arnold, editor.

Levinson, Riki, designer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors--Juvenile literature.

American poetry.

African Americans--Juvenile poetry.

African Americans.

American poetry--African American authors.

African Americans--Poetry.

Genre:

Literature.

Juvenile works.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 83, [1] pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[Rev. ed.]

Other Title:

Black poetry

Place of Publication:

New York : Dutton Children's Books, [©1994].

Summary:

A compilation of poems reflecting thoughts on being Black by such authors as Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, and Imamu Amiri Baraka.

Contents:

Listen children / Lucille Clifton

Our Black people / Kali Grosvenor

It's a new kind of day / Kali Grosvenor

The real people loves one another / Rob Penny

My people / Langston Hughes

Sun song / Langston Hughes

from African Poems / Don L. Lee

Awareness / Don L. Lee

Black people / Ted Joans

To P.J.(2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) / Sonia Sanchez

from Riot Rimes U.S.A. (#78) / Ray Patterson

from Riot Rimes U.S.A.(#79) / Ray Patterson

Good morning / Langston Hughes

Dream deferred / Langston Hughes

I was jus / Bob O'Meally

It aint no / Bob O'Meally

Ten years old; Poem for Flora; Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni

August 8 / Norman Jordan

from Blackwoman Poems / Don L. Lee

Sam's world; Your mother / Sam Cornish

For deLawd / Lucille Clifton

Portrait / Carolyn Rodgers

Good times / Lucille Clifton

My brother is homemade / Sam Cornish

Monument in black / Vanessa Howard

Glory, glory ... / Ray Patterson

Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni

#4 / Doughtry Long

A grandfather poem / William J. Harris

Old black men say / James Emanuel

I've got a home in that rock ... / Ray Patterson

Cross over the river; Montgomery / Sam Cornish

Ali / Lloyd Corbin, Jr (Djangatolum)

To Bobby Seale / Lucille Clifton

To Malcolm X / Julius Thompson

I remember ... / Mae Jackson

Aardvark / Julia Fields

Death of Dr. King (#1) / Sam Cornish

Dream variation; Final curve / Langston Hughes

Black is best / Larry Thompson

One thousand nine-hundred & sixty-eight winters / Jackie Earley

Were is my head going / Kali Grosvenor

What color is black? / Barbara Mahone

Do not think / Carol Freeman

SOS / Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones).

Notes:

"Revised edition copyright © 1994 by Arnold Adoff."

"Designed by Riki Levinson."

"It is a book of Black poetry. Poems by Black American poets of our time."--Page viii.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained with plastic cover.

Banks Collection copy has red stamp "Withdrawn Montgomery County Public Libraries".

Banks Collection coy has stamp "Kensington Park Library, 4201 Knowles Avenue, Kensington Maryland Oct. 1995" with red lines drawn through it.

Other Format:

Online version: My Black me.

ISBN:

0525452168 :

9780525452164

OCLC:

29907862