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Tables of Contents for From Totems to Hip Hop
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
Ishmael Reed
NATURE & PLACE
A Lost Memory of Delhi
5
2
Agha Shahid Ali
Newark
7
1
Evan Braunstein
Sun with Issues
8
3
David Colosi
Endangered Species
11
5
William Cook
from Elemental Journey: Anniversary Gift, #4 and #5
16
4
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Hides
20
2
Diane Glancy
San Jose: a poem
22
2
Cynthia Gomez
Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley
24
2
Ray Gonzalez
Hurakan: A Two Way Poem
26
2
Linda M. Rodriguez Guglielmoni
The Idea of Detroit
28
2
Jim Gustafson
Earth Chorus
30
2
Juan Felipe Herrera
Shagoon 1--4
32
2
Andrew Hope III
Animal Liberation
34
3
Genny Lim
Oaktown CA
37
2
Reginald Lockett
Chicago
39
1
Susan Marshall
Africa
40
1
Claude McKay
The Steeple-Jack
41
2
Marianne Moore
#8 from The Past
43
1
William Oandasan
At Yorktown
43
2
Charles Olson
La Jolla. In 3 Acts
45
2
J. Cody Peterson
Earthquake Blues
47
2
Ishmael Reed
Chicago
49
2
Carl Sandburg
The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me
51
1
Delmore Schwartz
Weather
52
2
May Swenson
Every Where and Every When
54
3
Arthur Sze
Cows and Alabama Folklore
57
2
Kathryn Takara
Hurricane Doris
59
4
Lorenzo Thomas
Love Poem to an Avocado from a Tomato
63
1
Yumi Thomas
Los Angeles
64
1
Nick Van Brunt
Montana's Biggest Weekend
65
2
Whitney Ward
Pear's Complaint
67
2
Greg Youmans
Seeing Red
69
1
Al Young
Black Mountain Blues
70
5
Bessie Smith
MEN & WOMEN
The Battle
75
1
Gwendolyn Brooks
Woman
76
2
Ina Coolbrith
The Brides Come to Yuba City
78
3
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Something Nice
81
1
Jack Forbes
Untitled
82
1
Mandy Kahn
from Lives in Dreadful Wanting
83
1
Alex Kuo
Love Is Not a Word
84
2
Eugene B. Redmond
The Purpose of Altar Boys
86
2
Alberto Rios
A Very Valentine
88
1
Gertrude Stein
Ringless
88
3
Diane Wakoski
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
91
2
William Carlos Williams
Bad Girl Blues
93
2
Memphis Willie B. (Borum)
Why Must U Be Unfaithful (4 Women)
95
4
Tupac Shakur
FAMILY
Bells
99
1
Jimmy Santiago Baca
A Place Without Shame
100
2
David Baraza
In the Waiting Room
102
4
Elizabeth Bishop
Oh! Mercy Mercy Me! A Family Gathers to Marvin Gaye
106
4
Laura Soul Brown
Callaloo
110
5
Chezia Thompson Cager
Nani Worries About Her Father's Happiness in the Afterlife
115
2
Ana Castillo
One Man's Family
117
2
Rosemary Catacalos
good times
119
1
Lucille Clifton
The Names
120
2
Billy Collins
Grandmother Eliza
122
2
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
April Fool Birthday Poem for Grandpa
124
2
Diane di Prima
Aunt Helen
126
1
T. S. Eliot
Bicentennial Anti-Poem for Italian-American Women
127
2
Daniela Gioseffi
Dance of the Letters
129
3
Vince Gotera
Winnings
132
2
Garrett Hongo
Joshua Clark
134
5
Maurice Kenny
Aerogramme 1--5: Los Angeles
139
11
Russell Leong
This Is the Poem I Never Meant to Write
150
2
Colleen J. McElroy
Doll
152
2
Josephine Miles
Last Days of a Slow Cooker
154
3
Mursalata Muhammad
My Shattered Sister
157
3
Naomi Quinonez
Hungry
160
3
Luis J. Rodriguez
Turkey People
163
1
Brynn Noelle Saito
Quill Holler Waller
164
1
Joan Self
The Truth the Dead Know
165
1
Anne Sexton
The Elders
166
2
Charles Simic
Uncle Good Intentions
168
3
Susie Silook
Easter: Wahiawa, 1959
171
4
Cathy Song
Untitled
175
1
Phillina Sun
For My Sister
176
2
Jannifer Traig
The Cloud Unfolding
178
2
Ernesto Trejo
The Fat of the Land
180
1
Ronald Wallace
Six Families of Puerto Ricans
181
2
Terence Winch
It's in The Blood
183
4
Nellie Wong
The Dirty Dozens
187
6
Speckled Red
POLITICS
And in the U.S.A.
193
1
Miguel Algarin
Integrating the Strawberry Swimming Pool in 1998
194
4
Cecil Brown
Killers
198
1
Cordelia Candelaria
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races
199
3
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Giles Johnson
202
1
Frank Marshall Davis
The Song of the Smoke
202
2
W. E. B. DuBois
Speak the Truth to the People
204
2
Mari Evans
1933
206
3
Kenneth Fearing
Eli, Eli
209
2
Jack Foley
A Semi-Revolution
211
1
Robert Frost
Centennial Year for the Spirits
211
5
Sister Goodwin
That God Made
216
1
Will Heford
1990
217
6
Bob Holman
Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
223
5
Langston Hughes
The Potato Manifesto
228
1
Cynthia Hwang
Facing It
229
1
Yusef Komunyakaa
What Were They Like?
230
2
Denise Levertov
The Execution
232
1
Walter Lowenfels
Milla: Mi abuela, Puerto Rico
233
2
Nancy Mercado
This Passover or the Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem
235
2
Hilton Obenzinger
from America in 1918
237
3
John Reed
For the Angry White Student Who Wanted to Know If I Thought White People Ever Did Anything Good for ``the Indians''
240
2
Wendy Rose
Poem (I Lived in the First Century)
242
1
Muriel Rukeyser
Between the World and Me
243
6
Richard Wright
HEROES & SHEROES, ANTI & OTHERWISE
Coyote Makes the First People
249
1
Peter Blue Cloud
Ogun's Friend
250
4
Jayne Cortez
Song 1 from Three Songs From the 50's
254
1
Victor Hernandez Cruz
Skin of Clouds
255
3
Thulani Davis
Helen
258
1
H. D.Hilda Doolittle
Tribute to Duke
259
6
Sarah Webster Fabio
Latin Music in New York
265
3
Jessica Hagedorn
Joe Williams at the Blue Note/Chicago, 1955; March 30, 1999
268
3
Sam Hamod
Wolf Warrior
271
3
Joy Harjo
A Ballad of the Life and Times of Joe Louis: The Great Brown Bomber
274
13
Calvin Hernton
Tiva's Tapestry: La Llorona
287
1
Linda Hogan
Filling the Gap
288
3
Lawson Inada
Skip The Byuppie
291
2
Ted Joans
Crootey Songo
293
1
Bob Kaufman
Sun Yat Sen Comes to Lodi
294
2
Alan Chong Lau
Trickster Rabbit
296
5
Roland Legiardi-Laura
Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan
301
11
Vachel Lindsay
Viewing Mona Lisa
312
1
Angela Martin
Six Movements for Portraits of Erzulie
313
3
Sandra McPherson
Lady Lazarus
316
4
Sylvia Plath
Disney's Cinderella
320
2
Tennessee Reed
Madonna for the Damned--a 1980's Heroine
322
2
Corie Rosen
A Flower from Robert Kennedy's Grave
324
4
Edward Sanders
from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
328
6
Frank Stanford
Dawnsong!
334
5
Askia M. Toure
A Poem for ``Magic''
339
2
Quincy Troupe
Fallen
341
1
Samira Vijghen
Jerusalem Walked thru War
342
2
Julia Vinograd
For Malcolm X
344
1
Margaret Walker
Searchin'
345
11
Jerry Leiber
Mike Stoller
MANIFESTOS
The Imagists' Manifesto (1915)
356
1
Amy Lowell
The Introduction to American Writers' Congress (1935)
357
11
Henry Hart
Gwendolyn Brooks (1969)
368
3
Haki K. Madhubuti
An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature (1975)
371
33
Frank Chin
Jeffery Paul Chan
Lawson Fusai Inada
Shawn Wong
Adieu a Charlot (Second Populist Manifesto) (1975--1978)
404
6
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Rise of the White Shaman as a New Version of Cultural Imperialism
410
14
Geary Hobson
from Pro Femina (1973)
424
3
Carolyn Kizer
The Introduction to Stealing the Language, the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America (1986)
427
9
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Cannon (1999)
436
18
Leslie Scalapino
Police State
454
3
Dead Prez
Contributors
457
54
Acknowledgments
511
2
Permissions
513
12
About the editor
525