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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman is Associate Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author of Spirits Distilled: Poems. Klappentext Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century-including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and Derek Walcott-alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.Some of the poems address crucial movement-related events-such as the integration of the Little Rock schools, the murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, the emergence of the Black Panther party, and the race riots of the late 1960s-and key figures, including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and John and Robert Kennedy. Other poems speak more broadly to the social and political climate of the times. Along with Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's headnotes, the poems recall the heartbreaking and jubilant moments of a tumultuous era. Altogether, more than 150 poems by approximately 100 poets showcase the breadth of the genre of civil rights poetry.Selected contributors. Maya Angelou, W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Philip Levine, Audre Lorde, Robert Lowell, Pauli Murray, Huey P. Newton, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Yevgeny Yevtushenko Zusammenfassung Words of Protest! Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?">Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi-1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones">The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you">Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng">Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone">Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham ...
