Roses and revolutions : the selected writings of Dudley Randall /
"Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his life, much of his work has been out of...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | African American life series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Melba Joyce Boyd
- Roses and revolutions
- Images From Black Bottom
- Essays
- Black aesthetic in the thirties, forties, and fifties
- Poems
- Old Witherington
- For Pharish Pinckney, bindle-stiff during the Depression
- Vacant lot
- Ghetto girls
- Laughter in the slums
- George
- Short stories
- Cup for the loser
- Victoria
- Wars: At Home And Abroad
- Poems
- Memorial wreath
- Southern road
- Legacy: my South
- Games
- Rx
- Jailhouse blues
- Apparition
- Spring before a war
- Helmeted boy
- Football season
- Pacific epitaphs
- Ascent
- Coral atoll
- Wait for me (Zhdi Myenya)
- My native land (Rodina)
- Civil Rights Era
- Essays
- Toward Mount Olympus: Ubi Sunt and Hic Sum
- White poet, black critic
- Short stories
- Cut throat
- Shoe shine boy
- Incident on a bus
- Poems
- Booker T and W E B
- Ballad of Birmingham
- Dressed all in pink
- Hymn
- Frederick Douglass and the slave breaker
- Interview
- Dilemma
- Poet
- Aphorisms
- Intellectuals
- Straight talk from a patriot
- Daily news report
- Blood precious blood
- Leader of the people
- Essay
- Melvin B Tolson: Portrait of a poet as raconteur
- Poems On Miscellaneous Subjects
- Hail, Dionysos
- Analysands
- Winter campus: Ann Arbor
- Shape of the invisible
- Nocturne
- Augury for an infant
- Belle Isle
- Verse forms
- Poem, on a nude, from the ballet, to Debussy's prelude L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune, after Mallarme's L'apres-Midi D'un Faune
- Killing a bug
- Love Poems
- I loved you once (ya vas lyubil)
- Profile on the pillow
- Good to be in you
- Thunderstorm
- Black magic
- Brightness moved us softly
- Love poem
- Sanctuary
- Love song
- April mood
- Loss
- Green apples
- Anniversary words
- Dialectics Of The Black Aesthetic
- Essays
- Black power
- Black publisher, Black writer: an answer
- Poems
- Black poet, white critic
- Rite
- Primitives
- Melting pot
- Justice
- Langston blues
- Seeds of revolution
- Answer to Lerone Bennett's questionnaire on a name for black Americans
- Put your muzzle where your mouth is (or shut up)
- Idiot
- Informer
- FBI memo
- Abu
- Militant black poet
- Sniper
- Tell it like it is
- Beasts
- After the killing
- To the mercy killers
- Ancestors
- Different image
- In Africa
- African suite: 1: Slave castle
- 2: Hotel Continental
- 3: Hotel Ivoire
- 4: Village girl
- Essay
- Black emotion and experience: the literature for understanding
- Last Leap Of The Muse
- Poet is not a jukebox
- My muse
- Translation from Chopin
- Detroit Renaissance
- Bag woman
- Aging whore
- Poor dumb Butch
- To an old man
- Afterword: Happiness
- Appendix 1: Poetry books by Dudley Randall, with contents
- Appendix 2: Capsule course in black poetry writing
- Selected bibliography.