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Tables of Contents for Giant Steps
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Kevin Young
The Black Psychic Hotline, or The Future of African American Writing
1
12
Elizabeth Alexander
13
12
What I'm Telling You
14
1
Nineteen
14
1
Frank Willis
15
1
Steall by Starlight
16
1
Deadwood Dick
17
1
Overture: Watermelon City
18
1
Race
19
1
Blues
20
2
Feminist Poem Number One
22
3
Hilton Als
25
12
From The Women
26
11
Anthony Butts
37
8
A Poe Story
38
1
Becoming the Ghost
39
1
Self-Portrait with Clark Street Cadillac
40
1
Detroit, One A.M.
40
1
Machines
41
1
The Loudest Sound
42
3
Edwidge Danticat
45
12
The Book of the Dead
46
11
Thomas Sayers Ellis
57
12
View of the Library of Congress from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
58
1
Fatal April
59
2
Being There
61
1
Hush Yo Mouf
62
2
Photograph of Dr. Funkenstein
64
1
Atomic Bride
65
4
Carolyn Ferrell
69
16
Can You Say My Name?
70
15
Ruth Forman
85
8
Haiku I
86
1
The Williams Side of the Family
86
1
Blues Poem III
86
1
Show Me the Ankles of Justice
87
1
Cancer
88
1
Momma Died When My Wisdom Teeth Come In
89
1
Even If I Was Cleopatra Jones
90
3
Terrance Hayes
93
12
Shafro
94
1
I Want to Be Fat
95
1
Neckbones
96
1
Candied Yams
97
1
What I Am
98
1
Goliath Poem
99
1
When the Neighbors Fight
100
2
Some Luminous Distress
102
1
Summer
103
2
Allison Joseph
105
10
Salt
106
1
Learning the Blues
107
1
Family Life
108
1
Home Girl Talks Girlhood
109
2
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person
111
4
John Keene
115
8
Jackie Robinson in Sportsmen's Park, 1949
116
1
Cecil's Consolation (1942)
117
1
One Revolution
118
1
Winter Elegy
119
1
Why I Love My Father
120
3
Randall Kenan
123
20
Now Why Come That Is?
124
19
Harryette Mullen
143
8
She Landed on the Moon
144
1
Roadmap
144
1
From Muse & Drudge
145
3
Suzuki Method
148
1
Black Nikes
148
3
Kevin Powell
151
10
Letter to My Father
152
9
Claudia Rankine
161
10
American Light
162
1
Him
163
1
Overview Is a Place
164
2
The Quotidian
166
2
This Life
168
3
Darieck Scott
171
22
1979
172
21
Danzy Senna
193
22
The Land of Beulah
194
21
Reginald Shepherd
215
10
The Difficult Music
216
1
Desire and the Slave Trade
217
2
Antibody
219
1
S'il Meurt
220
1
Icarus on Fire Island
221
1
At the Grave of Hart Crane
222
1
Skin Trade
223
2
Natasha Tarpley
225
10
From Girl in the Mirror
226
9
Natasha Trethewey
235
8
At the Station
236
1
Speculation, 1939
236
1
Drapery Factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956
237
1
Flounder
238
1
Saturday Matinee
239
1
Bellocq's Ophelia
240
3
Rebecca Walker
243
8
Higher Yellow
244
7
Anthony Walton
251
18
From Mississippi
252
17
Philippe Wamba
269
16
Of Prophets and Madmen
270
15
Colson Whitehead
285
12
The All-Night Bodega of Souls
286
11
Daniel Jerome Wideman
297
12
Singing Sankofa
298
11
Joe Wood
309
26
The Yellow Negro
310
25
Kevin Young
335
10
Nineteen Seventy-five
336
1
No Offense
337
1
Negative
338
1
Charlie Chan on Horn
339
2
Langston Hughes
341
1
Homage to Phillis Wheatley
342
3
Select Bibliography
345
8
Discography
353
6
Acknowledgements
359
4
Index by Genre
363