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Foreword | xv | |
Introduction | xix | |
Invocation | ||
We Have Been Believers | xxv | |
A Poet Is Not a Juke Box | xxvi | |
Nommo | xxvii | |
No Jive | xxviii | |
failure of an invention | xxviii | |
Building | xxix | |
The Disdirected | xxxi | |
Blood I Say, Study Our Story, Sing This Song | ||
The Way We Move | 1 | |
... And the Saga Continues | 1 | |
Bad Times | 3 | |
How to Do | 4 | |
Like a Dog | 6 | |
Lonely Women | 7 | |
On the Other Side | 9 | |
N | 10 | |
Her Scream Has Been Stolen | 11 | |
Crater Face | 12 | |
susu | 13 | |
An Asian Am Anthem | 14 | |
Scout | 16 | |
This Old Man | 17 | |
Afternoon Train | 19 | |
Beginning at the End: Capital/Capitol Punishment | 20 | |
Open Your Mouth--and Smile | ||
A Chinese Man in Smyma | 22 | |
450 Years of Selective Memory (Smile) | 23 | |
the n-word | 24 | |
an open letter to the entertainment industry | 25 | |
Metropolitan Metaphysics | 28 | |
America Eats Its Young | 29 | |
laughin at cha | 31 | |
Rosa's Beauty | 32 | |
Overworked | 33 | |
Nintendo | 34 | |
Stealth-Pirates of Cyberia | 35 | |
The Death of Poetry | 35 | |
Last Visit to Chestnut Middle School | 37 | |
Learning to Drive at 32 | 38 | |
Mr. BOOM BOOM Man | 39 | |
Road to the Presidency | 40 | |
For What It's Worth | 41 | |
Every Word Must Conjure | ||
It's Called Kings | 44 | |
Billy | 45 | |
To Become Unconscious | 46 | |
Letter to an Unconceived Son | 46 | |
The Usual Suspects | 48 | |
Blooming Death ... Blossoms | 49 | |
What the Oracle Said | 51 | |
The U.S.A. Court of No Appeal | 52 | |
on the state-sanctioned murder of shaka sankofa | 52 | |
An Epistle to the Revolutionary Bible | 53 | |
Warrior Womb | 55 | |
Cowboynomics | 56 | |
Demockery | 57 | |
Executive Privilege | 58 | |
Question | 61 | |
georgia avenue, washington d.c. | 62 | |
A Palace of Mourners | 64 | |
Palestine | 65 | |
The Road from Khartoum | 66 | |
A Modern Love Poem | 68 | |
In Praise of the Seattle Coalition | 69 | |
Blood Is the Argument | 69 | |
Drums Drown Out the Sorrow | ||
Amadou Diallo from Guinea to the Bronx Dead on Arrival | 73 | |
Another Scream | 74 | |
A Well-Bred Woman | 76 | |
Amadou | 78 | |
BLS | 78 | |
after diana died | 79 | |
Dudley Randall (1914-2000) | 80 | |
Hoodoo Whisper | 81 | |
Sammy Davis, Jr. | 82 | |
Glad All Over | 84 | |
Dancing after Sanchez | 85 | |
The 13th Letter | 86 | |
In Black Churches | 86 | |
For Gwendolyn Brooks | 87 | |
tonal embryology | 88 | |
Zizwe | 88 | |
All, Bomaye | 89 | |
Phyllis | 90 | |
Timbalero | 91 | |
Puente | 93 | |
Somalia | 93 | |
epitaph for Etheridge Knight | 94 | |
Farewell Queen Mother Moore | 97 | |
Palenque Queen by Habana's Shores | 98 | |
When the Definition of Madness Is Love | ||
January Hangover | 100 | |
the hardest part about love | 100 | |
Lies We Tell Ourselves | 102 | |
8 ways of looking at pussy | 103 | |
Temporary Insanity | 105 | |
alone in belize | 106 | |
footprints | 107 | |
Big World Look Out | 108 | |
Bullet Hole Man: A Love Poem | 110 | |
Dreadlocks | 111 | |
Roots | 111 | |
Six Minutes Writing | 112 | |
Diner | 112 | |
Fullness | 113 | |
Wet Dream | 115 | |
foursomes | 115 | |
Wishing You | 116 | |
Shunning an Imperative | 116 | |
January 8, 1996 | 118 | |
A Poem for You | 119 | |
Throbs for the Instructress | 120 | |
At the Frenchman's | 121 | |
Mata Hari Blues or Why I Will Never Be a Spy | 123 | |
Yellah | 124 | |
Extremes Ain't My Thing As Salaam Alaikum | 125 | |
13 | 126 | |
rock candy | 127 | |
Love Jam | 129 | |
Cocaine Mad-Scream Article #33 LoveSong | 130 | |
We Whose Fathers Are Hidden | ||
The Elders Are Gods | 132 | |
What the Dead Do | 133 | |
creation is a cycle | 133 | |
Birth | 134 | |
Daughter-to-Father Talk | 136 | |
Tattooing the Motherline | 137 | |
Our Fathers | 138 | |
Mama's Magic | 139 | |
Father's Day | 140 | |
Momma in Red | 140 | |
Wildlife | 141 | |
Chicago on the Day Brother Increases His Chances of Reaching Age 21 | 142 | |
Lest We Forget | 143 | |
The African Burial Ground Called Tribeca | 143 | |
fatherless townships | 144 | |
Waiting for the Results of a Pregnancy Test | 146 | |
Sitting in the Doctor's Office the Next Day | 148 | |
Circa | 148 | |
Seed of Resistance | ||
Cooking | 151 | |
Ben Hur | 151 | |
in 5th grade | 152 | |
Complected | 154 | |
Broken Ends Broken Promises | 155 | |
My Name's Not Rodriguez | 156 | |
Water from the Well | 157 | |
The Tragic Mulatto Is Neither | 158 | |
Beauty Is Moving Us Forward | ||
I'm Sayin Though | 160 | |
beauty rituals 2000 | 160 | |
Medusa | 161 | |
Stariette | 161 | |
exceptions | 163 | |
What the deal, son? | 166 | |
Plain Ole Brother Blues | 168 | |
Why I Be a Goddess | 169 | |
I'm the Man | 170 | |
Dare to Be Different | 171 | |
Thoughts from a Bar Stool | 173 | |
A Blue Black Pearl | 173 | |
runnin | 175 | |
conversations in the struggle | 176 | |
Harvest: A Line Drawing | 177 | |
joseph speaks to gericault in the studio | 178 | |
Entrancielo | 181 | |
New York Seizures | 182 | |
Hey Yo / Yo Soy! | 185 | |
Flying over America | 188 | |
It Was the Music That Made Us | ||
I'm a Hip Hop Cheerleader | 190 | |
kill the dj | 192 | |
Ms. Cousins' Rap | 193 | |
all up in there | 194 | |
Doin' | 195 | |
The Trash Talker | 196 | |
Owed to Eminem | 197 | |
A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop | 200 | |
rapid transit | 201 | |
hold it steady | 202 | |
Conversation with Duke Ellington and Louis (Pops) Armstrong | 203 | |
For Lady and Prez | 204 | |
breath | 205 | |
The Flow | 206 | |
Bebop Trumpet | 208 | |
conjugation of the verb: to blow | 208 | |
The Creed of a Graffiti Writer | 210 | |
Sonido Ink(quieto) | 214 | |
because I am it's a race thing trip | 215 | |
Grasshopper | 217 | |
Grace | 219 | |
The Low End | 219 | |
rep/resent | 221 | |
2G (Another Millennium Poem) | 223 | |
enter(f*#@ckin)tained | 223 | |
Children of the Word | ||
Motherseed | 226 | |
Wake Up, My Little Pretties | 227 | |
nommo: how we come to speak | 227 | |
spaNglisH | 229 | |
New Boogaloo | 229 | |
Mi Negrito | 232 | |
News of the World | 233 | |
Much of Your Poetry Is Beautiful | 234 | |
Ginsberg | 234 | |
In Bed with James Tate | 235 | |
soulgroovin ditty #7 | 236 | |
Sundays | 237 | |
To Aretha Franklin from Sparkle | 238 | |
Lumumba Blues | 239 | |
All the shoes are shined and the cotton is picked | 240 | |
In this day age | 241 | |
The Trouble I've Seen | 241 | |
Having Lost My Son, I Confront the Wreckage | 242 | |
Bensonhurst | 243 | |
For Michael Griffith, Murdered Dec. 21, 1986, Howard Beach, NY | 244 | |
Lift Every Fist and Swing | 245 | |
TV Dinner | 245 | |
Bluesman | 248 | |
We're Not Well Here | 250 | |
Nickel Wine and Deep Kisses | 251 | |
The Coward | 253 | |
Strip | 254 | |
Sex | 255 | |
enemies | 256 | |
American Poetry | 257 | |
So Many Books, So Little Time | 260 | |
How to Be a Street Poet | 261 | |
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash | 263 | |
X | 264 | |
The Tradition | 265 | |
There It Is | 267 | |
Contributors | 270 | |
Permissions | 281 |
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