Sweet solitude : new and selected poems /
Slade, Leonard A.
Sweet solitude : new and selected poems / Leonard A. Slade Jr. - Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 136 pages)
Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS; Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS; CONTENTS; From Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer (1988); The Black Man Speaks of Rivers, Part 2: A Tribute to Langston Hughes; Acquaintances; The Black Madonna (for Elizabeth Langford Slade); The Anniversary; The Country Preacher's Folk Prayer; God's Gender; The Mansion; By the Side of the Road; Race; Elegy for Therman B. O'Daniel; From The Beauty of Blackness (1989); The Beauty of Blackness; Transition; Sleepless Now; Cat; When I Heard from the Tax Man; A Child's Play; A Black Man's Song; Spring. To an Apostle of PeaceFrom I Fly Like a Bird (1992); Birds; Black Woman; His Professor; Overcharged; Drinking; And Want No More; Garden Party; What Are You, Life?; Grief; We Mourn a Sweet Soul; From The Whipping Song (1993); The Whipping Song; Peace Will Come; For My Forefathers; The Street Man; Love Should Grow, Not Wither; Rain; A Plea for Peace; Before the Death of Dad; Winds of Change; From For the Love of Freedom (2000); For the Love of Freedom; The Black Hair; Why Are You Laughing?; The Saint; A Song for the Black Woman; From Vintage (1995); There Will Be Blacks in Heaven; Strangers. From Pure Light (1996)Pure Light; Calling All Black Men; Words; Your Life Is Over for You If; Sunrise; In Praise of Shoeshines; So Happy; Innocence in Black and White; Budget Cuts; I Fly Away; How Great You Are; From Neglecting the Flowers (1997); Black and Beautiful; Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College on March 22, 1997; Reverend Hotair; Neglecting the Flowers; Like Douglass; Bury Yourself Now; On the Death of Mothers; Tongue; Burp; To Mephistopheles; Come, Prince of Peace; Good Manners; Love; From Lilacs in Spring (1998). I Came, I Saw, I Dreamed (for Abraham Lincoln)The Country Club in the Academy; Lilacs in Spring; Song for a Beautiful Lady (for my wife); Boss Hogg; Thank You, Abe!; From Elisabeth and Other Poems (1999); The Good Queen Bess (for Queen Elizabeth I of England); Mother Africa; Working on the Farm in 1947; Marry This Poem; Departure; Embden Pond; Robert Lewis (Our Samoyed); From Jazz After Dinner (2007); Jazz After Dinner; And When I Die; I Am a Black Man; Black Philosophy; Morning After Morning; Forgiveness; New Poems (2008); Heifer; Picnic; What I Need Is; I Want to Live While You Love Me. Highway to LoveI Do Love You; Brothers; Characteristics; Claudia, Back Home; Elegy for Emmanuel; Grapes; Today; Deacon; The Vision of America; The Geese; God's Glory; The Thought; I Shall Pray; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
9781438433462 (electronic bk.) 1438433468 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Slade, Leonard A.
American literature.
Littérature américaine.
FICTION--General.
American literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PS3569.L235 / S94 2010eb
811/.54
Sweet solitude : new and selected poems / Leonard A. Slade Jr. - Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, ©2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 136 pages)
Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS; Sweet Solitude NEW AND SELECTED POEMS; CONTENTS; From Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer (1988); The Black Man Speaks of Rivers, Part 2: A Tribute to Langston Hughes; Acquaintances; The Black Madonna (for Elizabeth Langford Slade); The Anniversary; The Country Preacher's Folk Prayer; God's Gender; The Mansion; By the Side of the Road; Race; Elegy for Therman B. O'Daniel; From The Beauty of Blackness (1989); The Beauty of Blackness; Transition; Sleepless Now; Cat; When I Heard from the Tax Man; A Child's Play; A Black Man's Song; Spring. To an Apostle of PeaceFrom I Fly Like a Bird (1992); Birds; Black Woman; His Professor; Overcharged; Drinking; And Want No More; Garden Party; What Are You, Life?; Grief; We Mourn a Sweet Soul; From The Whipping Song (1993); The Whipping Song; Peace Will Come; For My Forefathers; The Street Man; Love Should Grow, Not Wither; Rain; A Plea for Peace; Before the Death of Dad; Winds of Change; From For the Love of Freedom (2000); For the Love of Freedom; The Black Hair; Why Are You Laughing?; The Saint; A Song for the Black Woman; From Vintage (1995); There Will Be Blacks in Heaven; Strangers. From Pure Light (1996)Pure Light; Calling All Black Men; Words; Your Life Is Over for You If; Sunrise; In Praise of Shoeshines; So Happy; Innocence in Black and White; Budget Cuts; I Fly Away; How Great You Are; From Neglecting the Flowers (1997); Black and Beautiful; Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College on March 22, 1997; Reverend Hotair; Neglecting the Flowers; Like Douglass; Bury Yourself Now; On the Death of Mothers; Tongue; Burp; To Mephistopheles; Come, Prince of Peace; Good Manners; Love; From Lilacs in Spring (1998). I Came, I Saw, I Dreamed (for Abraham Lincoln)The Country Club in the Academy; Lilacs in Spring; Song for a Beautiful Lady (for my wife); Boss Hogg; Thank You, Abe!; From Elisabeth and Other Poems (1999); The Good Queen Bess (for Queen Elizabeth I of England); Mother Africa; Working on the Farm in 1947; Marry This Poem; Departure; Embden Pond; Robert Lewis (Our Samoyed); From Jazz After Dinner (2007); Jazz After Dinner; And When I Die; I Am a Black Man; Black Philosophy; Morning After Morning; Forgiveness; New Poems (2008); Heifer; Picnic; What I Need Is; I Want to Live While You Love Me. Highway to LoveI Do Love You; Brothers; Characteristics; Claudia, Back Home; Elegy for Emmanuel; Grapes; Today; Deacon; The Vision of America; The Geese; God's Glory; The Thought; I Shall Pray; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
9781438433462 (electronic bk.) 1438433468 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Slade, Leonard A.
American literature.
Littérature américaine.
FICTION--General.
American literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PS3569.L235 / S94 2010eb
811/.54