From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multi-Cultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 Book

	Introduction
	A Lost Memory of Delhi	5
	Newark	7
	Sun with Issues	8
	Endangered Species	11
	from Elemental Journey: Anniversary Gift, #4 and #5	16
	Hides	20
	San Jose: a poem	22
	Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley	24
	Hurakan: A Two Way Poem	26
	The Idea of Detroit	28
	Earth Chorus	30
	Shagoon 1-4	32
	Animal Liberation	34
	Oaktown CA	37
	Chicago	39
	Africa	40
	The Steeple-Jack	41
	#8 from The Past	43
	At Yorktown	43
	La Jolla. In 3 Acts	45
	Earthquake Blues	47
	Chicago	49
	The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me	51
	Weather	52
	Every Where and Every When	54
	Cows and Alabama Folklore	57
	Hurricane Doris	59
	Love Poem to an Avocado from a Tomato	63
	Los Angeles	64
	Montana's Biggest Weekend	65
	Pear's Complaint	67
	Seeing Red	69
	Black Mountain Blues	70
	The Battle	75
	Woman	76
	The Brides Come to Yuba City	78
	Something Nice	81
	Untitled	82
	from Lives in Dreadful Wanting	83
	Love is Not a Word	84
	The Purpose of Altar Boys	86
	A Very Valentine	88
	Ringless	88
	The Widow's Lament in Springtime	91
	Bad Girl Blues	93
	Why Must U Be Unfaithful (4 Women)	95
	Bells	99
	A Place Without Shame	100
	In the Waiting Room	102
	Oh! Mercy Mercy Me! A Family Gathers to Marvin Gaye	106
	Callaloo	110
	Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife	115
	One Man's Family	117
	Good times	119
	The Names	120
	Grandmother Eliza	122
	April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa	124
	Aunt Helen	126
	Bicentennial Anti-Poem for Italian-American Women	127
	Dance of the Letters	129
	Winnings	132
	Joshua Clark	134
	Aerogramme 1-5: Los Angeles	139
	This Is the Poem I Never Meant to Write	150
	Doll	152
	Last Days of a Slow Cooker	154
	My Shattered Sister	157
	Hungry	160
	Turkey People	163
	Quill Holler Waller	164
	The Truth the Dead Know	165
	The Elders	166
	Uncle Good Intentions	168
	Easter: Wahiawa, 1959	171
	Untitled	175
	For My Sister	176
	The Cloud Unfolding	178
	The Fat of the Land	180
	Six Families of Puerto Ricans	181
	It's in the Blood	183
	The Dirty Dozens	187
	And in the U.S.A.	193
	Integrating the Strawberry Swimming Pool in 1998	194
	Killers	198
	Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races	198
	Giles Johnson, Ph.D.	202
	The Sony of the Smoke	202
	Speak the Truth to the People	204
	1933	206
	Eli, Eli	209
	A Semi-Revolution	211
	Centennial year for the Spirits	211
	That God Made	216
	1990	217
	Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria	223
	The Potato Manifesto	228
	Facing It	229
	What Were They Like?	230
	The Execution	232
	Milla: Mi abuela, Puerto Rico	233
	This Passover or the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem	235
	from America in 1918	237
	For the Angry White Student Who Wanted to Know If I Thought White People Ever Did Anything Good for 'the Indians'	240
	Poem (I Lived in the First Century)	242
	Between the World and Me	243
	Coyote Makes the First People	249
	Ogun's Friend	250
	Song 1 from Three Songs From the 50's	254
	Skin of Clouds	255
	Helen	258
	Tribute to Duke	259
	Latin Music in New York	265
	Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955/March 30, 1999	268
	Wolf Warrior	271
	A Ballad of the Life and Times of Joe Louis: The Great Brown Bomber	274
	Tiva's Tapestry: La Llorona	287
	Filling the Gap	288
	Skip The Byuppie	291
	Crootey Songo	293
	Sun Yat Sen Comes to Lodi	294
	Trickster Rabbit	296
	Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan	301
	Viewing Mona Lisa	312
	Six Movements for Portraits of Erzulie	313
	Lady Lazarus	316
	Disney's Cinderella	320
	Madonna for the Damned-a 1980's Heroine	322
	A Flower from Robert Kennedy's Grave	324
	from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You	328
	Dawnsong!	334
	A Poem for "Magic"	339
	Fallen	341
	Jerusalem Walked thru War	342
	For Malcolm X	344
	Searchin'	345
	The Imagists' Manifesto (1915)	356
	The Introduction to American Writers' Congress (1935)	357
	Gwendolyn Brooks (1969)	368
	An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature (1975)	371
	Adieu a Charlot (Second Populist Manifesto) (1975-1978)	404
	The Rise of the White Shamon as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism	410
	from Pro Femina (1973)	424
	The Introduction to Stealing the Language, the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986)	427
	The Cannon (1999)	436
	Police State	454
	Contributors	457
	Acknowledgments	511
	Permissions	513
	About the editor	525