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Every Goodbye Ain't Gone

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Contents

Introduction..................................................................................xiiiLloyd AddisonI by you put on...............................................................................1After MLK.....................................................................................2All the things of which there are none........................................................4Umbra.........................................................................................6William AndersonThere's Not a Friend like the Lowly Jesus.....................................................10Russell AtkinsIt's Here in the..............................................................................11Probability and Birds.........................................................................12While Waiting for a Friend to Come to Visit a Friend in a Mental Hospital.....................13Spyrytual.....................................................................................14Lines in Recollection.........................................................................15"the L L L"...................................................................................16Furious'd Garb................................................................................17Night and a Distant Church....................................................................18Christophe....................................................................................19Irritable Songs...............................................................................20Narrative.....................................................................................27At Night Keep Still...........................................................................28Imaginary Crimes in a Real Garden.............................................................29Amiri BarakaBiography.....................................................................................30The violence of the mind is the violence of God...............................................32How People Do.................................................................................33The Heavy.....................................................................................34Lefty.........................................................................................35Node..........................................................................................37The A, B, C's.................................................................................39I Investigate the Sun.........................................................................42Courageousness................................................................................43The City of New Ark...........................................................................44Jodi BraxtonConversion....................................................................................58Harold CarringtonLament........................................................................................61Woo's People..................................................................................63sting-a south carolina ave. folk tale.........................................................64Stephen ChambersHer...........................................................................................65Jayne CortezDrying Spit Blues.............................................................................66Under the Edge of February....................................................................68Phraseology...................................................................................70Indelible.....................................................................................71Opening Act...................................................................................72Into This Time................................................................................74Lawrence S. CumberbatchI Swear to You, That Ship Never Sunk in Middle-Passage!.......................................77Again the Summoning...........................................................................78In the Early Morning Breeze...................................................................79Rudy Bee GrahamA LYNCHING FOR SKIP JAMES.....................................................................80Without Shadow................................................................................83William J. HarrisA Grandfather Poem............................................................................86Practical Concerns............................................................................87De Leon HarrisonA Collage for Richard Davis-Two Short Forms...................................................88Formula for Blue Blues Babies.................................................................89Yellow........................................................................................90David HendersonDowntown-Boy Uptown...........................................................................91Sketches of Harlem............................................................................93In Williams...................................................................................94Lock City.....................................................................................96Blackman in the Desecrated Synagogue-Living in the Last Days..................................97Calvin HerntonBeing Exit in the World.......................................................................98The Wall......................................................................................99Medicine Man..................................................................................100Joseph Jarman"what we all".................................................................................104"Non-cognitive aspects of the City"...........................................................105Ted JoansThe Overloaded Horse..........................................................................108Percy JohnstonRound About Midnight, Opus #6.................................................................109Lexington Avenue Express......................................................................110to paul robeson, opus no. 3...................................................................111Dewey Square, 1956............................................................................113BLAUPUNKT.....................................................................................115Stephen JonasFor LeRoi Jones...............................................................................116BOOK V........................................................................................117".. An Ear Injured by Hearing Things".........................................................123Orgasm 0......................................................................................125A MUDDLE......................................................................................131A LITTLE MAGIC................................................................................132lens..........................................................................................133IV............................................................................................134"what you can see"............................................................................135June JordanAll the World...