Research Catalog

Title

Honoring the ancestors / James E. Cherry.

Author

Cherry, James E.

Publication

Chicago : Third World Press, [2008], ©2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

x, 64 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• African Americans > Poetry

Contents

Foreword / E. Ethelbert Miller -- Honoring the Ancestors -- Father's Day 2005 -- Bird Remembered (For Charlie Parker) -- Genealogy -- Postscript -- Travelin (for Langston) -- Annie Allen (for Gwendolyn Brooks) -- Emmett Till (after all these years) -- For the Life of Poetry -- Touissant -- Between Football and Freedom -- From Summer to Fall -- Robeson: Artist -- Robeson: Actor -- Robeson: Activist -- Fight Night -- Images -- Port Harcourt (for Ken Saro Wiwa) -- Come the Day (ken saro wiwa) -- A Life (ken saro wiwa) -- Lunch with Brother -- Drivin' Nikki -- Baptism -- Awakenings (for Sonia) -- Wilsonia Benita Driver (1934, Sonia) -- YOU A BaddDDD SISTAH -- Beginnings (August 21, 1791, Haiti) -- To Langston -- Resurrection -- Sympathy for Saddam -- Lower Ninth Ward -- Long Ways From Home -- Object Lessons -- Pretty White Girls (for emmett till) -- Beat (bob kaufman) -- Migration Series (for Jacob Lawrence, Panel 1) -- Guevara: Beginnings -- Guevara: Hey You -- Guevara: Final Hours -- Black Smoke (the election of a pope) -- Dessalines -- Fight (Haiku) -- Homecoming (for Gil Scott-Heron) -- Runaway Slave (Haiku) -- Amadou -- Coal Miner Song -- Last Testament (Sago Miners) -- Inmate 29300 (Tookie) -- Migration (Haiku) -- Words of a Poet (Li Young Lee) -- Gun -- An Open Letter to Claude Wilkinson -- Blackman on Trial -- Sister Betty -- Question (for Haitian refugees) -- A Revolutionary's Dilemma.

ISBN

• 9780883782934 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0883782936 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008014143
• 40015759027

OCLC

• ocn179843099
• 179843099
• SCSB-5424725

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries