Measures 4-7/32" X 6-31/32", 606+ pp, edited by Abraham Chapman, stated "16 25 14 13 12 11 10 9," published by Penguin Group (NY), Mentor paperback #451-ME2617. Contents: JOHN OLIVER KILLENS -- The Cotillion (Foreword) ROBERT DEAN PHARR -- The Numbers Writer CYRUS COLTER -- Mary's Convert ERNEST J. GAINES -- Three Men RONALD L. FAIR -- We Who Came After ETHERIDGE KNIGHT -- A Time To Mourn WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY -- A Good Long Sidewalk MIKE THELWELL -- Bright An' Mownin" Star AL YOUNG -- Chicken Hawk's Dream JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON -- A Solo Song: For Doc JEANNE A. TAYLOR -- A House Divided CECIL BROWN -- The Life And Loves Of Mr. Jiveass N----r (Prologue) VICTOR STEVEN WALKER -- The Long Sell JOE MARTINEZ -- Rehabilitation And Treatment GWENDOLYN BROOKS -- Riot MARGARET WALKER -- Ballad Of The Hoppy-Toad ROBERT HAYDEN -- The Dream (1863) IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) -- Ka 'Ba Sacred Chant For The Return Of Black Spirit And Power GERALD W. BARRAX --The Scuba Diver Recovers The Body Of A Drowned Child The Old Gory For A Black Poet F. J. BRYANT, Jr. -- Cathexis CONYUS -- The Great Santa Barbara Oil Disaster OR: I rode with geronimo Confession To Malcolm JAYNE CORTEZ -- Lonely Woman I'm A Worker Suppression The Rising VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ -- First Claims Poem urban dream JAMES A. EMANUEL -- Whitey, Baby Black Man, 13th Floor For "Mr. Dudley, " A Black Spy Panther Man MARI EVANS -- Viva Noir! CALVIN FORBES -- Reading Walt Whitman Europe Lullaby For Ann-Lucien NIKKI GIOVANNI -- My Poem CARL H. GREENE -- Something Old, Something New The Realist The Excuse KIRK HALL -- blackgoldblueswoman today is not like they said. . . MICHAEL S. HARPER -- A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit High Modes: Vision As Ritual: Confirmation Zocalo The Guerrilla-Cong WILLIAM J. HARRIS -- My Baby A Daddy Poem EVERETT HOAGLAND -- The Anti-Semanticist LANCE JEFFERS -- Old Love Butchered (Colorado Springs And Huachuca) Trellie I do not know the power of my hand There Is A Nation NORMAN JORDAN -- I Have Seen Them When A Woman Gets Blue Be You The Silent Prophet July 27, The Poet The Dreamer BOB KAUFMAN -- Cocoa Morning Heavy Water Blues Genealogy ETHERIDGE KNIGHT -- The Warden Said To Me The Other Day Crazy Pigeon A WASP Woman Visits A Black Junkie In Prison It Was A Funky Deal For Langston Hughes OLIVER LAGRONE -- Suncoming Remnant Ghosts At Dawn Lines To The Black Oak DON L. LEE -- One Sided Shoot-Out a poem to complement other poems AUDRE LORDE -- Generation New York City 1970 Coal K. CURTIS LYLE -- Sometimes I Go To Camarillo Sit In The Lounge Lacrimas Or there is a need to scream NAOMI LONG MADGETT -- Sally: Twelfth Street Brothers At The Bar Souvenir The Twenty Grand (Saturday Night On The Block) CLARENCE MAJOR -- Vietnam #4 Self World ADAM DAVID MILLER -- The Africa Thing The Hungry Black Child the pruning mulch LARRY NEAL -- The Middle Passage And After Harlem Gallery: From The Inside Lady's Days TEJUMOLA OLOGBONI (ROCKIE D. TAYLOR) -- Changed Mind (or the day i woke up) Black Henry I Wonta Thank Ya RAYMOND R. PATTERSON -- What We Know Black Power When I Awoke A Word To The Wise Is Enough Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman This Age N. H. PRITCHARD -- The Signs Passage DUDLEY RANDALL -- Primitives The Melting Pot Old Witherington EUGENE REDMOND -- Parapoetics Spearo's Blues (Or: Ode To A Grecian Yearn) Definition Of Nature ISHMAEL REED -- catechism of a neoamerican hoodoo church ED ROBERSON -- Four Lines Of A Black Love Letter Between Teachers SONIA SANCHEZ -- liberation / poem on watching a world series game STEPHANY -- 16. What Marked The River's Flow 19. Who Collects The Pain 23. I Have Spent My Life 26. It Is Again 27. Moving Deep LORENZO THOMAS -- Inauguration SOTERE TORREGIAN' -- Poem For The Birthday Of Huey P. Newton The Newark Public Library Reading Room Travois Of The Nameless QUINCY TROUPE -- A Day In The Life Of A Poet Impressions / Of Chicago; For Howlin' Wolf you come to me The Syntax Of The Mind Grips TOM WEATHERLY -- autobiography your eyes are mirth blues for franks wooten mud water shango RON WELBURN -- Whichway black is beautiful it is overdue time lyrics shimmy like Condition Blue / Dress put u red-eye in and universals tu JAY WRIGHT -- The Neighborhood House Jalapena Gypsies AL YOUNG -- A Little More Traveling Music A Dance For Ma Rainey A Dance For Militant Dilettantes Dance Of The Infidels The Prestidigitator {1} The Prestidigitator {2} ISAAC J. BLACK -- Racist Psychotherapy TOM DENT -- For Walter Washington Ray Charles At Mississippi State VAL FERDINAND (KALAMU YA SALAAM) -- whi/te boys gone The Blues (In Two Parts) 2 B BLK Food For Thought RENALDO FERNANDEZ -- legacy of a brother KUSH -- A Message For Langston NAYO (BARBARA MALCOLM) -- Bedtime Story Black Woman Throws A Tantrum I watched little black boys First time I was sweet sixteen easy way out JOHN O'NEAL -- Shades Of Pharoah Sanders Bles For My Baby RAYMOND WASHINGTON -- Vision From The Ghetto Freedom Hair Moon Bound CHESTER HIMES -- Dilemma Of The Negro Novelist In The U. S.A. RALPH ELLISON -- Remarks At The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences Conference On The Negro American, 1965 JAMES BALDWIN -- Why I Left America RICHARD A. LONG -- Black Studies: International Dimension NATHAN HARE -- Algiers 1969: A Report On The Pan-African Cultural Festival STERLING STUCKEY -- Through The Prism Of Folklore: The Black Ethos In Slavery IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) -- The Legacy Of Malcolm X, And The Coming Of The Black Nation VAL FERDINAND (KALAMU YA SALAAM) -- BLKARTSOUTH / get on up! ELDRIDGE CLEAVER -- Psychology: The Black Bible MAULANA RON KERENGA -- Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force And Function JAMES CUNNINGHAM -- Hemlock For The Artist: Karenga Style EMORY DOUGLAS -- On Revolutionary Culture JOHNETTA B.COLE -- Culture: Negro, Black And N----r DARWIN T. TURNER -- The Teaching Of Afro-American Literature LANCE JEFFERS -- Afroamerican Literature: The Conscience Of Man ISHMAEL REED -- 19 Necromancers From Now (Introduction) ADDISON GAYLE, Jr. -- The Son Of My Father ADAM DAVID MILLER -- Some Observations On A Black Aesthetic WALT SHEPPARD -- An Interview With Clarence Major And Victor Hernandez Cruz AL YOUNG -- Statement On Aesthetics, Poetics, Kinetics MALCOLM X -- Statement Of Basic Aims And Objectives Of The Organization Of Afro-American Unity Basic Unity Program, Organization Of Afro-American Unity INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD -- Statement of Purpose And Program THE BLACK WORLD FOUNDATION -- Program BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS -- Purposes Founding Address By C. 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