American Negro poetry /

Table of Contents: “…; The day-breakers ; Golgotha is a mountain ; Idolatry ; Reconnaissance ; Southern mansion ; Nocturne at Bethesda -- Countee Cullen : Heritage (for Harold Jackman) ; That bright chimeric beast ; Yet do I marvel ; Four epitaphs ; Simon the Cyrenian speaks -- Donald Jeffrey Hayes : Appoggiatura ; Benediction ; Haven ; Poet ; Threnody ; Alien ; Pastourelle -- Jonathan Brooks : The resurrection -- Frank Marshall Davis : Flowers of darkness ; Four glimpses of night -- Waring Cuney : No images ; Threnody ; Finis -- Helene Johnson : Poem ; The road ; Sonnet to a negro in Harlem ; Invocation -- Richard Wright : Between the world and me ; Hokku poems -- Charles Enoch Wheeler : Adjuration -- Pauli Murray : Without name ; Dark testament -- Robert Hayden : A ballad of remembrance ; Witch doctor ; Middle passage ; Frederick Douglass ; Veracruz -- Dudley Randall : Perspectives ; I loved you once (from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin) -- Owen Dodson : Sorrow is the only faithful one ; Drunken lover ; Sickle pears (for Glidden Parker) ; Hymn written after Jeremiah preached to me in a dream ; Yardbird's skull (for Charlie Parker) ; Sailors on leave -- Leslie M. Collins : Stevedore -- Margaret Walker : For my people ; Molly means ; October journey -- Frank Yerby : The fishes and the poet's hands ; Weltschmerz ; Wisdom ; You are a part of me ; Calm after storm -- Samuel Allen : A moment please ; To satch -- Catherine Cater : Here and now -- Gwendolyn Brooks : Flags ; The old-marrieds ; Piano after war ; The Chicago Defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall, 1957 -- Bruce McM. …”