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Title

Cross a parted sea : poems / by Sam Cornish.

Author

Cornish, Sam.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, 1996.

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Details

Description

126 pages; 21 cm

Contents

• Porter -- Love Song of a Red Cap -- Jack Rabbit in the Black Belt -- Woke Up When Living Here Was Like Being in the County Jail -- Alabama -- American Earth -- A Bed of the Ground -- My Soul Died with America -- Of Dusk and Valor Dunbar Sang -- Soldiers' Elegies -- Italian Elegies -- Love Letters -- To Cross the Parted Sea -- America Knocks But Once -- In the Company of Men America Knocks Upon the Door -- I Walk Alone -- Dog Town Slim -- Buffalo Soldiers -- Green Spring -- Booker -- A Clear and Present Danger -- Something Terrible Something -- Uncle -- Neckbone -- Sucked His Dick Cut His Throat -- Sweetman -- Mississippi on the Doorstep -- Brotherman -- The Royal Sassy Mouth -- Jackie Robinson -- Trouble in July -- Niggers -- Blues -- Josh White -- Brother Never Take Your Troubles Home Like a Mule Kicking -- Hangover -- Oh...So Good -- Cold Cold Ground -- All Through the Night -- Cross a Parted Sea -- Good Jelly Gives New Meaning to Mercy -- Pastry --
• Go Tell It on the Mountain -- My Father's House -- Work to be Done -- Men of the Farm Men of the Land -- Omaha -- Take Me There -- Poor White -- Log Cabin Negro -- The American Dream of Jesse Owens -- Langston Variations 1955 -- Foot in the Dark -- Aunt Harriet -- What Work Often Is -- Pitcher of Lemonade -- For A Negro Lady of the Evening and Weekend -- Brown Bomber -- Elvis -- Only the White Man Sings -- Elegy for My Father 1945 -- Post War -- Negro Me -- The Song in the World is a Sharecropper's -- Home of the Brave -- The Beating -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- The Cross -- Man Called the River -- My Banjo -- More than Mississippi Allows -- The Vertical Negro at a Woolworth's Lunch Counter -- Lunch -- Richard from Mississippi the South Has a Foot Up Your Ass -- One Hundred Million Black Voices -- Brother of the Streets -- Lunch Counter -- Life Was Poor -- A River the World Knows -- My Lord What A Mourning -- The Pews on Sunday -- Uncles -- Negro Poet --
• The South Was Waiting in Baltimore -- Tired From Walking But Not Tired Enough -- That Kind of Man -- The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Cold Dead Fingers -- Consider This Negro Woman -- Migrant -- Black English -- 1968 -- Death of Dr. King -- Chocolate -- Brother Poet -- Bus Boycott -- Catherine -- Boogie Woogie.

ISBN

0944072712 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96016397

OCLC

• 34545338
• ocm34545338

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries