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In love and struggle : poems for bold hearts / M. Ron Karenga, Ph.D.
LIBRA - Rare PS3561.A6242 I5 1978 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karenga, Maulana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--African American authors.
- Poetry.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- African American authors.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 56 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Kawaida Publications, 1978.
- Contents:
- Strong and Beautiful Like something Malcolm Said
- Needs, Now-and Then
- No Sunrise or Reality Without You
- In Wisconsin, Wishing for You
- This Decade, A Decade of Loving You
- Mountain-Strong in My Love for You
- When the Beaches Began Singing Summer
- Your Seasons Are Always Softness
- Flyin and Flashing on You
- For Kawaid and the Continuing Commitment
- Beyond the Ruins, Something Real This Time
- Keeping in Mind the Mountains
- The Snitch, Trapping Truth and Other Obscenities
- Til Morning and Midnites Make Sense Again
- Speak Beauty in Sun-Warm Ways
- Strawberries and No More Winters
- Baby-Soft and Woman-Warm
- Speak My Story Now
- Change, Rushing and Roaring Around Corners
- Springflowers and Summer Softness
- FESTAC and Lagos Love
- Memories of US in L.A.
- Nine Years and Still Not Enough of You
- Cuz You Know and Need Me
- Feeling Smiles and Smelling Flowers
- When There is Time
- Bubbling-Over Love
- A Whole 'Nother Way of Loving
- Outrageous Love for You
- Feeling' Your Fullness
- Magic and Much More
- At a Meeting, Missing You
- Struggle, Flower Blossoms and Birdsongs
- Autumn Leaves on Fire
- Just You
- Love Song and Something Else
- A Song for You Inside Me
- In Your Fullness
- Sunglow and Slow River
- Thinking Soft
- Tasting Joy Together
- Fill Me Full of You
- Love and Poems for You
- Loving in the Middle of a Lecture
- In the Middle of Your Magic
- Love-fruit and Freedom
- For Ourselves and History.
- Notes:
- "In these poems, Dr. Karenga seeks to show the real and mutually reinforcing link between love and struggle in the push for a new world and a new people to inhabit it. He calls these poems for bold hearts, because he sees love as a bold act in a world full of everyday hate."--Preface.
- "Also by Dr. M. Ron Karenga": page 56.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- OCLC:
- 8022628
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