Giant talk : an anthology of Third World writings / compiled and edited by Quincy Troupe and Rainer Schulte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Troupe, Quincy, compiler.

Schulte, Rainer, 1937- compiler.

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

Series:

Vintage ; V-443.

Vintage ; V-443

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Developing countries--Literary collections.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Literature.

Literary collections.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xliv, 546 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Vintage Books.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1975.

Contents:

Oppression and Protest. The anger that breaks the man into children. The anger that breaks the man into children / Cesar Vallejo

The volcano / Derek Walcott

The condemned ; Uprising / Jorge Carrera Andrade

Refugee mother and child / Chinua Achebe

Vultures / David Diop

The imprisonment of Obatala / J.P. Clark

from Another country / James Baldwin

The beggars ; Hunger in the South / Pablo Neruda

The Negro sings in New York City ; Execution / Nicolas Guillen

Harriet Tubman / Margaret Walker

Revolution / Enrique Lihn

Catechism: operation homecoming / George Barlow

Après la guerre / Wole Soyinka

Crying huts / Ibn Mukhtarr Mustapha

Psalm 5 ; Psalm 48 / Ernesto Cardinal

The misogynous eunuch / Tchicaya U Tam'si

Everything counts / Ama Ata Aidoo

If we must die / Claude McKay

And then we heard thunder / John O. Killens

The mask of the oracle in the temple / Raquel Jodorowsky

Parallels / Joyce Carol Thomas

Saturdays at the Muceques / Antonio Agostinho Neto

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden

Conquest of dawn / Mazisi Kunene

Letters to Martha / Dennis Brutus

Lumumba's grave / Langston Hughes

Poem to the hip generation / Amus Mor

I know a lady / Joyce Carroll Thomas

I am going to speak of hope / Cesar Vallejo

Violence. Blood in the thermometer rises in arms. After the killing / Dudley Randall

from Rabbit boss / Thomas Sanchez

The hunt / Juan Liscano

Apocalypse in wonderland / Guillermo Cabrera Infante

from A change of skin / Carlos Fuentes

Black pantheress / Pablo Neruda

The addled West / Javier Pacheco

from El Señor Presidente / Miguel Angel Asturias

Savage / Aime Cesaire

The corpse in the parlor / Dalton Trevisan

The cat / Mario Arregui

Suddenly in the cracks / Gabriel Okara

At that moment (a legend of Malcolm X) / Raymond R. Patterson

Barbequed Cong: or we laid My Lai low / Eugene Redmond

From our album / Lawson Fusao Inada

The man / Juan Rulfo

Guerrilla song / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon)

Her sweet Jerome / Alice Walker

The anniversary ; Hangman / Ai (Florence Anthony)

The wine of astonishment / Earl Lovelace

Tornado / Aime Cesaire

Violence / Rene Depestre

from Runner Mack / Barry Beckham

Combat / Rafael Cadenas

False limits / Vlady Kociancich

A Crisis of Identity. I know only the things that birds have abandoned. Displaced days / Jorge Carrera Andrade

Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen

from Lost steps / Alejo Carpentier

Migration / Carole Gregory Clemmons

Harlem / Langston Hughes

The terrible angel or: The National Anthem / Ivan Silen

When we hear the eye open ... / Bob Kaufman

Embalmers / Wing Tek Lum

Black walls / Nico Suarez

from Why are we so blest / Ayi Kwei Armah

Walking around / Pablo Neruda

from Invisible man / Ralph Ellison

Don't ever lose your driver's license / Jose Montoya

Legacy of the word / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon)

Benjamin Banneker helps to build a city / Jay Wright

Definitions / Felipe Luciano

Sugar baby / Chinua Achebe

Four stations in his circle / Austin Clarke

After the death of an Elder Klallam / Duane Niatum

Bronxomania / Victor Hernandez Cruz

Sunset Beach, L.A. / Ahmos Zu-Bolton

Brush fire / Tchicaya U Tam'si

The names of you all / Solomon Deressa

The song turning back into itself / Al Young

Harlem anthropology / David Henderson

from Weep not, child / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (James Ngugi)

The dry well / Solomon Deressa

For deLawd / Lucille Clifton

from An intellectual to a girl of the people / Enrique Lihn

He sees through stone / Etheridge Knight

Generations / Judy Dothard Simmons

Night of my blood / Kofi Awoonor

The voices / Jean Baptist Tati-Loutard

Nothingness / Rene Depestre

The life of Lincoln West / Gwendolyn Brooks

Music, Language, Rhythm. Divine wailing along the dark cone. South African bloodstone / Quincy Troupe

Altazor or Journey by parachute / Vincente Huidobro

Biography / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Cherries / Edward Brathwaite

from The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / Ernest Gaines

Flute players / Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

A voyage of sunsights / Eseoghene (Lindsay Barrett)

Epilogue / May Wong

Tampa Red's contemporary blues / E. Curtis Lyle

Effendi / Michael Harper

Harvest song / Jean Toomer

Piano and drums / Gabriel Okara

The dirge our moms are singing / Taban Lo Liyong

Percussions / Ron Welburn

from Who is Angelina? / Al Young

listen children / Lucille Clifton

Be you / Norman Jordan

For Ann / Everett Hoagland

Nanette Neely, wherever you are / Horace Coleman

Blues ain't no mockin bird / Toni Cade Bambara

Return the bridewealth / Okot P'Bitek

Blacklove, east / Askia Muhammad Toure

The great bassist / Lawson Fusao Inada

Walking Parker home / Bob Kaufman

Robin's strange assignment / Steve Cannon

Africa, music and show business / Dollar Brand

Ark of bones / Henry Dumas

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra / Ishmael Reed

Strong man ; Southern road / Sterling A. Brown

That house / Amir Rashidd

Yes, Jesus loves me / Joe Johnson

But he was cool ... / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

White rat / Gayl Jones

Hiccup / Leon Damas

Song for Kwame / Jayne Cortez

Ngoma / Henry Dumas

from There is a tree more ancient than Eden / Leon Forrest

Belly song / Etheridge Knight

Coatlicue / Sergio Mondragon

Sunlight and water / Aime Cesaire

Jupiter lights await the planet Earth / Sebastian Clarke

Cadence / K. Curtis Lyle

The Humorous Distance. It is necessary to have something of the flower in all this. Thousand and one nights ; Window to the sea ; Reverend Malthus on the beach ; Accident / Gabriel Zaid

The United Fruit Co. / Pablo Neruda

from Love story black / William Demby

The experimental boy / Murilo Mendes

Speech to the young ... / Gwendolyn Brooks

From pure heart I am freezing / Cesar Vallejo

Literary politics / Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Hokku / Everett Hoagland

Hot lunch : Noah: a cold cold man / Stanley Crouch

dragon's blood ; white hope ; dress rehearsal paranoia #2 / Ishmael Reed

Ars Poetica ; It's nice / Roberto Fernandez Retamar

Camus:I want to know / Bob Kaufman

from Obscene bird of night / Jose Donoso

Bargain / Leon Damas

Clinic of neurotics theater manqué

In dream : the privacy of sequence / Ray A. Young Bear

Hurrah for thunder / Christopher Okigbo

from Radiance of the king / Camara Laye

Sentences ; This has got to be a ceremony ; Warnings ; The discourse of the good thief / Nicanor Parra

Ghost poem 1 ; Ghost poem 3 / Larry Neal

Market woman / Mervyn Taylor

High on the hog / Julia Fields

telephone booth number 19 or 60 ; telephone booth number 97 ; telephone booth number 555 / Pedro Pietri

A downed black pilot learns how to fly / Horace Coleman

Weeksville women / Elouise Loftin

After hearing a radio announcement ... / Quincy Troupe

Gamma / Melvyn Tolson

Uncle Tom's black humour / Taban Lo Liyong

There's a man in the habit of striking me ... / Fernando Sorrentino

Firtual and Magic. There shall still linger there the communion we forged. how i go ovah / Carolyn Rodgers

Guru / Sergio Mondragon

When the rain stops / Antonio Montana

Kinaxixi / Agostinho Neto

Elegy for slit-drum / Christoper Okigbo

Blacamán the Good, vendor of miracles / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Devotion to fire / Ruben Alonso Ortiz

Location of the heart / Juan Tovar

The masquerade / Juan Jose Hernandez

To her in the Third World / Ariel D. Canzani

from Far journey of Oudin / Wilson Harris

Prayer to masks / Leopold Sedar Senghor

Lead Belly gives an autograph / Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)

Rocks / Eseoghene (Lindsay Barrett)

present / Sonia Sanchez

Verifying the dead ; Why I didn't go to Delhi / James Welch

The pupils of the eyes / Amos Tutuola

My house / Nikki Giovanni

Mary / Lucille Clifton

Covenant / Lemuel Johnson

The face / Daniel Moyano

House made of dawn / N. Scott Momaday

Consultation / Jayne Cortez

Calypso / Mervyn Taylor

These poems / June Jordan

River of bones and flesh and blood / Eugene Redmond

The Conceptual Voyage. Seed of water-spirit sunbird of love in flight. Wind from all compass points / Octavio Paz

Embryo / Quincy Troupe

Poem / Joao Cabral de Melo Neto - Across time and river / Tchicaya U Tas'si

from Sula / Toni Morrison

Ars Poetica / Pablo Neruda

Point of departure : fire dance fire song / Keorapetse Kgositsile

House taken over / Julio Cortazar

Africa II / Doughtry "Doc" Long

Karukéra / Guy Tirolien

A condition (of being) ; Vertigo or the contemplation of something that ends ; Contemplation ; A dream where silence is made of gold ; Rescue ; As water over a stone / Alejanda Pizarnik

Bird of passage / Dennis Scott

from the Secrets II / Victor Hernandez Cruz

The approximation of terror / Murilo Mendes

Insomnia ; Listening to Mbaqanga / Lindiwe Mabuza

Falling / Bob Kaufman

Return / Luis Garcia Morales

The hot center of thunder / Ruben Alonso Ortiz

An obscure meadow lures me / Jose Lezama Lima

Lithography of the River Cologne ... / Jose Emilio Pacheco

Death no longer faces mirrors ; One day I will find a word / Roberto Juarroz

at this moment, I cannot write ; in the arena of silence / Isabel Fraire

The quest for Poesy / Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Terra cotta / K. Curtis Lyle

The nameless woman / Juan Liscano

Life can be overcome / Antonio di Benedetto

Fire by the sea ; A motto for poets / Roberto Fernandez Retamar

The chant beneath the mist ; Noon splits the riverbank / Homero Aridjis

From the Fleeting and the permanent / Juan Sanchez Pelaez

The poem and the water ; Daily space / Joao Cabral de Melo Neto

In the open eyes of the dead ; The wounded crab / Jaime Sabines

III, V, XIII, XVIII / Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Inquiry / Leroy Clarke.

Notes:

First Vintage Books, September 1975.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-528).

Local Notes:

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

Other Format:

Online version: Giant talk.

ISBN:

0394714431

9780394714431

0394488008

9780394488004

OCLC:

1339730