Research Catalog

Title

Black moods : collected poems / Frank Marshall Davis ; edited by John Edgar Tidwell.

Author

Davis, Frank Marshall, 1905-1987.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tidwell, John Edgar.

Description

lxviii, 275 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The American poetry recovery series

Uniform Title

American poetry recovery series.

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Weaving Jagged Words into Song -- Chicago's Congo -- Only My Words -- What Do You Want America? -- I Sing No New Songs -- Lynched -- What's a New Full Moon? -- Rain -- Gary, Indiana -- Jazz Band -- Mojo Mike's Beer Garden -- Cabaret -- Returned -- The Slave -- Five Portraits of Chicago at Night -- Hands of a Brown Woman -- Creation -- Which One? -- Lullaby -- death -- Georgia's Atlanta -- Portrait of an Old Woman -- South State Street Profile -- Finding -- Christians? -- Query -- Dreams -- Kansas Winter -- Failure -- Race -- April Night -- Tryst -- To You -- Love Notes at Night -- The Story Ends -- Realization -- Rev. Joseph Williams -- Goldie Blackwell -- Acey White -- Robert Whitemore -- Arthur Ridgewood, M.D. -- George Brown -- Giles Johnson, Ph.D. -- Roosevelt Smith -- Forewarning -- I Am the American Negro -- Dancing Gal -- Flowers of Darkness -- They All Had Grand Ideas -- Christ Is a Dixie Nigger -- Washington Park, Chicago --
• Note Left by a Suicide -- To One Who Would Leave Me -- 'Mancipation Day -- Notes on a Summer Night -- Awakening -- Come to Me -- Modern Man - the Superman -- Two Women -- For Any Unborn Negro -- "Onward Christian Soldiers!" -- Midsummer Morn -- Moses Mitchell -- Sam Jackson -- Jonathan Wood -- Cleo and Sarah Greeley -- Benjamin Blakey -- Nicodemus Perry -- Mrs. Clifton Townsend -- Editor Ralph Williamson -- Frank Marshall Davis: Writer -- 47th Street -- Snapshots of the Cotton South -- Pattern for Conquest -- Black Weariness -- Egotistic Runt -- Chicago Skyscrapers -- Tenement Room -- Four Glimpses of Night -- To Those Who Sing America -- Peace Quiz for America -- For All Common People -- War Zone -- Nothing Can Stop the People -- I Bring Proven Gifts -- Lines to a Summer Love -- To One Forever Gone -- To Lorelei -- Life Is a Woman -- Alone -- You Are All -- Coincidence -- Man of Science -- Adam Smothers -- Mental Man -- Spinster: Old --
• I Have Talked with Death -- Self Portrait -- Peace Is a Fragile Cup -- To the Red Army -- I Have Faith -- Creed for Hedonists -- Ours Is a Modern God -- Little and Big -- Public Servant -- Give Us Our Freedom Now! -- Finality -- To Those Seeking Fame -- Black American -- Three Average Americans -- [Ike Mosby] -- Miss Samantha Wilson -- To a Young Man -- Billie Holiday -- Duke Ellington -- Charlie Parker -- Louis Armstrong -- Lady Day -- Ella -- "Swing It Brother Swing" -- This Is Paradise -- Moonlight at Kahana Bay -- Tale of Two Dogs -- Pacific Invasion -- Horizontal Cameos: 37 Portraits -- To Helen -- [In What Strange Place] -- To My Own -- She -- Alpha-Omega -- The Search Ends -- Alone -- App. War Quiz for America.

ISBN

0252027388

LCCN

2001005616

OCLC

• ocm48013749
• SCSB-4272603

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries