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| Searching... Author: BARAKA, AMIRI Matches Found: 56 Baraka, Amiri Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi 56 poems available by this author A CONTRACT. (FOR THE DESTRUCTION AND REBUILDING OF PATERSON) Poem Text Recitation First Line: Flesh, and cars, tar, dug holes beneath stone Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry A NEW REALITY IS BETTER THAN A NEW MOVIE! Poem Text First Line: How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut, volcano, smashup Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks A POEM FOR BLACK HEARTS First Line: For malcolm's eyes, when they broke Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks A POEM FOR SPECULATIVE HIPSTERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: He had got, finally A POEM SOME PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO UNDERSTAND First Line: Dull unwashed windows of eyes Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Men; Negroes; American Blacks AFRIKAN REVOLUTION Poem Text First Line: Afrikan people all over the world / suffering from white domination Last Line: Struggle & victory Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks AM/TRAK First Line: Trane / trane, history love scream on Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Coltrane, John (1926-1967); Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music & Musicians AN AGONY. AS NOW Poem Text First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AN AMERICAN OPPRESS STORY! First Line: Remember howdy doody? / well, he grew up & became jimmy carter Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy (B. 1924) ANSWERS IN PROGRESS First Line: Can you die in airraid jiggle Last Line: That's the way the fifth day ended. Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians BABYLON REVISITED Poem Text First Line: The gaunt thing / with no organs Subject(s): Hate BALBOA, THE ENTERTAINER Poem Text First Line: It cannot come BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN First Line: Beautiful black women, fail, they act. Stop them, raining Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK ART Poem Text First Line: Poems are bullshit unless they are Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK BOURGEOISIE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Has a gold tooth, sits long hours Last Line: Him black self Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK DADA NIHILISMUS First Line: Against what light / is false what breath Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks BLACK LITANY First Line: You can't be the devil Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (B. 1918) CITIZEN CAIN Poem Text First Line: In the great northwest, always, my grandfather warned me Last Line: Roi, baby, you blew the whole thing Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks DEATH IS NOT AS NATURAL AS YOU FAGS SEEM TO THINK Poem Text First Line: I hunt Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FUNK LORE Poem Text First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ouselves / the blues Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations HYMN FOR LANIE POO Poem Text First Line: O / these wild trees Last Line: For that mayyer, by god Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry IN MEMORY OF RADIO Poem Text First Line: Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of lamont cranston? Subject(s): Radio IN THE FUGITIVE Poem Text First Line: Richard kemble kept insisting Last Line: Oddly resembles low german Subject(s): Innocence; Television; Tv IN THE TRADITION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Blues walk weeps ragtime Last Line: Death to the klan! Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians INCIDENT Poem Text First Line: He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came Last Line: Of his hands and fingers, we know nothing Subject(s): Murder IT'S NATION TIME Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Time to get / together Last Line: It's nation / time! Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks KA 'BA Poem Text First Line: A closed window looks down Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks LEADBELLY GIVES AN AUTOGRAPH Poem Text First Line: Pat your foot / and turn the corner. Nat turner, dying wood Last Line: Burned to death / in south carolina Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ledbetter, Huddie [leadbelly] (1888-1949); Negroes; American Blacks LEGACY Poem Text First Line: In the south, sleeping against Subject(s): Blues (Music) LEROY Poem Text First Line: I wanted to know my mother when she sat Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks LIKE ROUSSEAU Poem Text First Line: She stands beside me, stands away, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LOOK FOR YOU YESTERDAY, HERE YOU COME TODAY Poem Text First Line: Part of my charm Last Line: I can't understand what superman is saying Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks LOWCOUP Poem Text First Line: Craziness is no / act Last Line: To speak / for god Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MALCOLM REMEMBERED (FEB. '77) Poem Text First Line: Malcolm / callin you back thru years Last Line: Until our victory, comrade malcolm, until our victory! Subject(s): African Americans; Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Negroes; American Blacks NIXON First Line: With his pointed head Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) NUMBERS, LETTERS Poem Text First Line: If you're not home, where Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks POEM FOR HALFWHITE COLLEGE STUDENTS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Who are you, listening to me, who are you Last Line: You might be surprised right out the window, whistling dixie on the way in Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks POLITICAL POEM Poem Text First Line: Luxury, then, is a way of / being ignorant, comfortably Subject(s): Social Protest PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE Poem Text First Line: Lately, I've become accustomed to the way Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers & Daughters; Negroes; American Blacks RETURN OF THE NATIVE Poem Text First Line: Harlem is vicious / modernism Last Line: Are so familiar Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks SOS Poem Text First Line: Calling black people Subject(s): African Americans; Alphabet Verse; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks SOUNDING Poem Text First Line: And so the seasons, they tell us Last Line: Blind visionaries babbling Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE BLACK MAN IS MAKING NEW GODS Poem Text First Line: Atheist jews double crossers stole our secrets crossed Last Line: And put you back in a cold box Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I have forgotten the head Last Line: (when you have let the song run out) will be sliding through unmentionable black Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE INVENTION OF COMICS Poem Text First Line: I am a soul in the world: in Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks THE NEW WORLD Poem Text First Line: The sun is folding, cars stall and rise Subject(s): Aging THE RARE BIRDS; FOR TED BERRIGAN Poem Text First Line: Brook no obscurity, merely plunging deeper Last Line: Impressions, and it was a message, from like a very rare bird. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Birds; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Songs THE WORLD IS FULL OF REMARKABLE THINGS Poem Text First Line: Quick night / easy warmth Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks THREE MODES OF HISTORY AND CULTURE Poem Text First Line: Chalk mark sex of the nation, on walls we drummers Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks TO THE FAUST NEGRO TO SELL HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL FOR THAT Poem Text First Line: Oh americans who have overcome Last Line: In order for the rest of us to live Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks W.W. First Line: Back home the black women are all beautiful Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks WAY OUT WEST Poem Text First Line: As simple an act Subject(s): Aging WE OWN THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: We are unfair Last Line: We own the night Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks WESTERN FRONT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: My intentions are colors, I'm filled with Last Line: Not for definite, no cats we know Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Negroes; American Blacks WHO BLEW UP AMERICA Recitation by Author Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHY'S/WISE: WISE 1 Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: If you ever find / yourself Last Line: To get / out! Subject(s): African Americans; Wit & Humor; Negroes; American Blacks |
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