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English 685/468
~ Fall 2001 ~ Susan Tichy
A longer
reading list of African-American Poets from the Harlem Renaissance to the
1990s
in
Anthology
of Modern American Poetry
Those
marked * appear on your list of assigned readings.
From
the Harlem Renaissance:
Dunbar:
We Wear
the Mask 37
When
Malindy Sings 38
*Sympathy
39
The Haunted
Oak 40
Grimké:
*The
Black Finger 145
Tenebris
145
Fragment
146
Spencer:
*White
Things 162
McKay:
The Harlem
Dancer 315
*To
the White Friends 315
*If
We Must Die 315
The Lynching
316
America
317
Outcast
318
*Mulatto
318
The Negro’s
Tragedy 318
Toomer:
*from
Cane 352
Tolson:
*Libretto
for the Republic of Libya 418 [Read several pages, including the notes,
to get a feel for its scope. If you later decide to write on Brathwaite
you should read it all.]
Brown:
Scotty
Has His Say 473
*Slim
in Atlanta 476
*Slim
in Hell 478
Old Lem
482
Sharecroppers
483
Southern
Cop 484
*Choices
485
Hughes:
*Negro
503
The Cat
and the Saxophone 505
*Mulatto
506
White
Shadows 508
*Good-bye
Christ 512
*Let
America Be America Again 515
Letter
from Spain 517
*Harlem
523
*Come
to the Waldorf Astoria 1230 [in the appendix]
Christ
in Alabama 1232 [in the appendeix]
*Dinner
Guest: Me 524
Bennett:
To a Dark Girl 528
Cullen:
*Incident
530
*Yet
Do I Marvel 531
Near
White 531
Tableau
531
*Heritage
532
Wright:
We of
the Streets 584
Transitional
poets, whose careers continued into the years of the Black Arts movement
(& beyond):
Hayden:
*Middle
Passage 691
*Runagate
Runagate 696
A Letter
from Phyllis Wheatley 699
Aunt
Jemima of the Ocean Waves 701
Randall:*Ballad
of Birmingham 731
Brooks:
*Piano
After War 769,
*The
White Troops Had Their Orders 770
The Progress
772
We Real
Cool 772
*Young
Afrikans 776
*The
Boy Died in My Alley 777
*To
Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals 778
To the
Diaspora 779
Black
Arts poets:
Knight:
*The
Idea of Ancestry 968
*For
Malcolm a Year After 971
For Black
Poets Who Think of Suicide 972
Dumas:
*Son
of Msippi 991
*Kef
24 992
Fish
993
Knees
of a Natural Man 994
Baraka:
*Black
Art 998
*When
We’ll Worship Jesus 999
Lorde:
*Coal
1009
*Call
1011
Outlines
1011
Cortez:
I Am
New York City 1026
Do You
Think 1027 (assigned week 3)
Clifton:
I Am
Accused of Tending to the Past 1029
at the
cemetery 1030
*Reply
1031
Poem
to My uterus 1032
To My
Last Period 1032
Brothers
1033
Harper:
Song
I Want a Witness 1043
Brother
John 1044 (assigned week 4)
We assume
1046
Reuben
Reuben 1046
*Deathwatch
1047
Dear
John Dear Coltrane 1048 (assigned week 4)
Reed:
I Am
a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra 1050
Smith:
Malcolm 1062
Rodgers:
*how
i got ovah 1095
*and
when the revolution came 1096
mama’s
god 1097
Younger
poets:
Komunyakaa:
*Tu
Do Street 1142
Communique
1144
Work
1147
Smith:
What
It's Like to Be a Black Girl 1198
Blonde
White Women 1199
Rita
Dove:
Parsley
1172
Harryette
Mullen:
from
Trimmings 1187 (assigned week 12)
from
S*Perm**K*T 1187 (assigned week 12)
Thylias
Moss:
Fullness
1193
There
Will Be Animals 1193
Ambition
1194
Crystals
1196
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