Jazz After Dinner
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-6948-4 (ISBN)
From "I Am a Black Man"
I am a Black man
my history written with blood
some sweet songs of sorrow
are composed for my soul
and I
can be seen plowing in the fields
Can be heard
humming
in the night
In these poems of celebration and endurance, Leonard A. Slade Jr. addresses the human need to be connected not only to the physical "now," but also to the other lives and other music we pass through during our lives. Slade's unique voice exposes the sweetness, the sorrow, and the humor of life's celebrations and struggles, but above all is the importance of love and the reliance on God and in faith for transcendence. These are poems to help us to endure, to grow, and to triumph.
Leonard A. Slade Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies, Director of the Doctor of Arts in Humanistic Studies Program, and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has published in many journals and magazines and is the author of fifteen books, including eleven books of poetry: Another Black Voice: A Different Drummer, The Beauty of Blackness, I Fly Like a Bird, The Whipping Song, Vintage, Fire Burning, Pure Light, Neglecting the Flowers, Lilacs in Spring, Elisabeth and Other Poems, and For the Love of Freedom.
Acknowledgments
Jazz after Dinner
Jazz After Dinner
For Our Mothers
Drinking
We Must Remember
His Professor
My Friend, My Survivor
Overcharged
Thanksgiving Celebration
In Praise of Summer
Sounds
This My Father
Queen for Patrons
Freedom
He
Citizens in Heaven
How Beautiful, O God
And When I Die
I Am a Black Man
Be Grateful
New Year
Advice I Wish I Had Taken Earlier in Life
Never Forget
The Sad Adult
Be Like the Flower
Conversation
Black Philosophy
Reasons for Celebration
Classic Shed
Brown Portrait
Reasons for Celebration
The Great Mother
As a Friend
New York City
Life and Death
Golden Years
Family-Glorious
How Great You Are
When I Heard from the Tax Man
Lilacs in Spring
Rapping My Way Home from an English Conference at Hunter College On March 22, 1997
What is a Father?
The Black Madonna
A Child’s Play
For My Forefathers
Black and Beautiful
Black Woman
For My Forefathers
Family
Before the Death of Dad
And Want No More
Growing with Grace
A Plea for Peace
Love Should Grow, Not Wither
The Street Man
Acquaintances
Rain
Embden Pond
Cat
Pure Light
The Country Preacher’s Folk Prayer
The Anniversary
Morning After Morning
The Countryside of Northampton
Elegy for Therman B. O’Daniel
Forgiveness
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.6.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 127 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-6948-4 / 0791469484 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-6948-4 / 9780791469484 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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