Table of Contents:
  • Al Young
  • A Dance for Militant Dilettantes
  • Poetry
  • A Dance for Li Po
  • Lemons, Lemons
  • Dancing in the Laundromat
  • The Move Continuing
  • For Joanne in Poland
  • From: The Offering
  • Pachuta / A Memoir
  • Moon-Watching by Lake Chapala
  • The Song Turning Back into Itself
  • The Dancer
  • Birthday Poem
  • For Poets
  • De Leon Harrison
  • The Seed of Nimrod
  • The Room
  • Dream #6
  • Excursion on a Wobbly Rail
  • Some Days/Out Walking Above
  • Last Night I Died
  • Some Pseudo Philanthropist
  • Poem for Herbie Nichols
  • A Collage for Richard Davis
  • Two Short Forms
  • Yellow
  • Sarah Webster Fabio
  • Evil Is No Black Thing
  • All Day We've Longed for Night
  • To Turn from Love
  • Back into the Garden
  • Work It Out
  • Calvin C. Hernton
  • The Distant Drum
  • Fall Down
  • Victor Hernandez Cruz
  • Mellow
  • The Story of the Zeros
  • The Electric Cop
  • Poetry Lesson
  • The Trip
  • The May 29th Fool
  • The Dance of the Eight Ways
  • from Doing Poetry
  • conyus
  • I Rode with Geronimo
  • On Gossip behind My Back
  • A Gold Watch Hung in the Sky
  • Upon Leaving the Parole Board Hearing
  • Lucille Clifton
  • The Meeting after the Savior Came
  • My Mama Moved among the Days
  • Miss Rosie
  • The 1st
  • Good Times
  • In the Inner City
  • Those Boys That Ran Together
  • For De Lawd
  • If I Stand in My Window
  • Ca'line's Prayer
  • Admonitions
  • A.B. Spellman
  • 1 1/2 Seasons
  • The Beautiful Day #2
  • For My Unborn and Wretched Children
  • Sequel to the Above
  • The Joel Blues
  • Jelly Wrote
  • John Coltrane
  • When Black People Are
  • In Orangeburg My Brothers Did
  • N.H. Pritchard
  • As
  • Aswelay
  • #
  • Alcoved Agonies
  • :
  • -.-.-.
  • Parcy Jutridge
  • Ovo
  • Etheridge Knight
  • To Make a Poem in Prison
  • Crazy Pigeon
  • the Warden Said to Me the Other Day
  • Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
  • He Sees through Stone
  • The Idea of Ancestry
  • The Violent Space
  • On Universalism
  • For Malcolm, a Year After
  • It Was a Funky Deal
  • For Langston Hughes
  • Cell Song
  • William Anderson
  • There's Not a Friend Like the Lowly Jesus
  • The February Rain Is Falling
  • The Huey Newton Trial
  • David Henderson
  • Felix of the Silent Forest
  • Boston Road Blues
  • Bopping
  • Fork of the West River (5)
  • So We Went to Harlem
  • Patricia Parker
  • From Cavities of Bones
  • I Followed a Path
  • Assassination
  • A Family Tree
  • Sometimes My Husband
  • Adam David Miller
  • The Hungry Black Child
  • Crack in the Wall Holds Flowers
  • The Africa Thing
  • Clarence Major
  • This Temple
  • Tud
  • Longlegs
  • Dismal Moment, Passing
  • Flesh Line, the Space
  • Glenn Myles
  • Express Rider
  • A Poem for Jill
  • When New Green Tales
  • Percy
  • Ishmael Reed
  • I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
  • Badman of the Guest Professor
  • Beware: Do Not Read This Poem.