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Michael S. Harper

"Harper has eschewed neither the personal, political nor the lyrical, but consistently forged a middle road from the multiple intersections of memory and experience, music and language, oppression and achievement...
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	FURTHER READING


		Politics and Patriotism
		Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg

		A Farewell to America by Phillis Wheatley

		America by Robert Creeley

		America by Walt Whitman

		Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

		Dear George Bush by Kristin Prevallet

		Exquisite Candidate by Denise Duhamel

		Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel

		I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

		I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

		Identity Crisis by F. D. Reeve

		In a Country by Larry Levis

		Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

		On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley

		Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman

		Patriotics by David Baker

		Patriotism by Sir Walter Scott

		Thanksgiving Letter from Harry by Carl Dennis

		The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key


		Black History
		A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		A Song for Many Movements by Audre Lorde

		Believing in Iron by Yusef Komunyakaa

		Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson

		Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes

		Dreams by Langston Hughes

		Flounder by Natasha Trethewey

		For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young

		Frederick Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar

		Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield

		homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton

		I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady

		La Vie C'est La Vie by Jessie Redmon Fauset

		Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson

		Quatrains by Gwendolyn Bennett

		Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove

		Song of the Son by Jean Toomer

		Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

		The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

		The White House by Claude McKay

		We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

		We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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American History
by Michael S. Harper

Those four black girls blown up in that Alabama church remind me of five hundred middle passage blacks, in a net, under water in Charleston harbor so redcoats wouldn't find them. Can't find what you can't see can you?
From Images of Kin by Michael S. Harper, published by University of Illinois Press. © 1970 by Michael S. Harper. Used with the permission of the University of Illinois Press. All rights reserved.

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